[kwlug-disc] Videoconference testing -- please help

[Doug Moen]

> It is a shame that Zoom is becoming the standard

I know; we should all be using open source, decentralized, peer-to-peer video conferencing software instead.

Doug.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, at 1:59 AM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 
> On Linux, I have only been able to get it working with the client
> software. Somebody sends me a Zoom link and then it prompts me to open
> that link with the plugin. 
> 
> It is a shame that Zoom is becoming the standard, but if we didn't
> want that we should have been born into a different timeline.
> 
> - Paul
> 
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 01:34:00AM +0000, Doug Moen wrote:
> > Thanks, Paul. Zoom seems to be catching on with my crowd, so we've been using Zoom for social get-togethers. So far it only works for me on my mac laptop in the Chrome browser. It doesn't work for me in Firefox, but I have so many security- and privacy-protecting browser extensions loaded that it's not surprising, and I haven't actually tried to get it working on Linux.
> > 
> > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, at 12:20 AM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> > > 
> > > Okay, I verified that the Zoom plugin for Linux does work on Ubuntu
> > > 18.04. I tested Zoom with Charles today, and we were both on Linux
> > > computers. 
> > > 
> > > (That does not mean I am announcing that we are holding the KWLUG
> > > meeting on Zoom. I just wanted to answer Doug's question.) 
> > > 
> > > - Paul
> 
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