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I use MS teams on Linux all day long for work through web browser (I think it's a PWA app?) and have no issues at all. I'm not saying I love MS teams but I am not running into any bugs with it. My only complaint is they used to have a 'native' Linux app that ran using something called electron that would allow for notifications in my desktop environment, whereas now in the browser I don't get those, but that didn't really end up being a problem.
Wait, you are running it in a browser? That would give a terrible experience and limited features (you probably miss out on that sweet voiced meeting recap). I can understand why you/anyone wouldn't like that.
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But I do like MS teams
It’s usually fine, but when it decides to be difficult it’s extremely frustrating. It’s pretty rare that it directly affects me, but it has happened. And for some of my coworkers it seems to be always acting up.
That being said, I do love being able to walk my dog while on meetings with Teams on my phone.
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Onedrive is a nightmare.
Once made the mistake of keeping some personal photos in the 'pictures' directory of my own laptop.
Then started a course at uni, installed the free student version of MS365 or whatever it's called, including onedrive.
Next thing i know, I get a popup notification displaying the 'best of' my private photos on screen, while I'm showing colleagues something on my laptop!
They deleted pics I saved. I have everything in my own drives and shut one drive out of my computer. POS
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oo webex is so so much worst
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Wait, you are running it in a browser? That would give a terrible experience and limited features (you probably miss out on that sweet voiced meeting recap). I can understand why you/anyone wouldn't like that.
Check it out, teams.microsoft.com, I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything for my day to day work duties? I can lead meetings, screen share, use Copilot, calendar...all the "Teams" stuff like the tabs for onenote or planner or other apps (they're all web based too). I guess I don't feel like I'm missing out on any capability?
TBH I'd rather read a transcription than listen to two voices paraphrasing a meeting anyway.
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They deleted pics I saved. I have everything in my own drives and shut one drive out of my computer. POS
At this point, any file you store in Windows is temporary only. Backup it to your phone if you want to be sure.
And, of course, neither of them is private. Expect them to be sent to everybody you know with your name attached.
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But I do like MS teams
It's so calming when it just decides to not get any new message for a day and starts removing meetings from your schedule...
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You and me are out there enjoying it (unless you are being sarcastic, then it's just me out there in ignorant bliss).
I still don't get why people are so opposed (it's cheaper than the collection of apps required to do the same thing). The best reason I heard was it doesn't work well on Linux, which I'm like duh - they don't care about that demographic, like, at all. My best thinking is that maybe folks aren't using all the features. I mean, one of them is a voiced Copilot summary of a meeting done by a man and woman, like they are talking about the meeting at the water-cooler. Truly terrible and amazing all at once.
For me is the low bar of quality assurance. It is so incredibly filled with bugs.
Wrong connection status, inconsistent connection status, sometimes decides to not receive any calls and ghost missing calls are a daily ocurrence in my group. Literally any of these bugs will happen 5+ times a day.
I'm also convinced it is the reason my Win10 install got borked and had to reinstall the whole OS.
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At this point, any file you store in Windows is temporary only. Backup it to your phone if you want to be sure.
And, of course, neither of them is private. Expect them to be sent to everybody you know with your name attached.
This is not the future we were promised. I never would have thought that we would have to be our own security experts to save ourselves from the companies we depend on.
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You and me are out there enjoying it (unless you are being sarcastic, then it's just me out there in ignorant bliss).
I still don't get why people are so opposed (it's cheaper than the collection of apps required to do the same thing). The best reason I heard was it doesn't work well on Linux, which I'm like duh - they don't care about that demographic, like, at all. My best thinking is that maybe folks aren't using all the features. I mean, one of them is a voiced Copilot summary of a meeting done by a man and woman, like they are talking about the meeting at the water-cooler. Truly terrible and amazing all at once.
I love loops for day to day project management
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I've said that, and meant it, but it was when Teams first came out. At the time, it was just a bare-bones Slack clone with the alternative being the godawful Skype for Business. lol.
All they had to do was just stop making it worse from there.
Microsoft: hold my beer!
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For me is the low bar of quality assurance. It is so incredibly filled with bugs.
Wrong connection status, inconsistent connection status, sometimes decides to not receive any calls and ghost missing calls are a daily ocurrence in my group. Literally any of these bugs will happen 5+ times a day.
I'm also convinced it is the reason my Win10 install got borked and had to reinstall the whole OS.
When I worked at Boeing, for reasons that are completely unknown to me, they had features of some products (including Teams) disabled and were running versions that were quite behind. And it occurred to me that some people experience the tech this way. I wonder if that is happening for others who have negative experiences...
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Microsoft anything, really
OneDrive/SharePoint is worse than Teams. fight me
ofc I would never say I love Teams
“[…] I love Teams”
- mrgoosmoos, 2025
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Microsoft: hold my beer!
wrote last edited by [email protected]I know, right? Ballmer was batshit crazy but at least you could squint your eyes and his decisions kind-of made sense (e.g. Windows 8 was a turd, but you could at least see what he was trying to do). Nadella has just shoved in cloud and now AI bullshit since he took over, and no thanks.
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Microsoft anything, really
OneDrive/SharePoint is worse than Teams. fight me
ofc I would never say I love Teams
They have been fucking with Outlook trying to force everyone to use Onedrive. It is really annoying.
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Microsoft anything, really
OneDrive/SharePoint is worse than Teams. fight me
ofc I would never say I love Teams
The multibillion dollar company I work for hosts literally everything on Teams and OneDrive. We absolutely have the capacity for storage on-site, we absolutely have the capacity to spin up our own cloud. They just do it this way because "well it's already there".
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Microsoft anything, really
OneDrive/SharePoint is worse than Teams. fight me
ofc I would never say I love Teams
MS DOS was nice. Nothing special, but definitely not shit.
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When I worked at Boeing, for reasons that are completely unknown to me, they had features of some products (including Teams) disabled and were running versions that were quite behind. And it occurred to me that some people experience the tech this way. I wonder if that is happening for others who have negative experiences...
wrote last edited by [email protected]Often times it is because of limitations beyond the control of MS. Like, in my company we use MS products because they are the standard. But we have to work with the vendor and IT to selectively disable a group of features and updates. Because we are very secretive and confidentiality is paramount for very good reasons, it has nothing to do with trade secrets, it is about protecting people. Nothing can leave our servers, no telemetry, no AI, no automated cloud backups, no summary, no bots on meetings, no transcriptions, none of the usual crap they are constantly pushing for. Salesmen look at us like we are aliens, but it's either that or we can't do our job well. As a result, we are often left with lobotomized versions of the same apps. But at the same time, it shows how little those feature are actually useful or necessary. And in particular, how they are a prime point of failure and bugs.
Our Teams still fucks up connections from time to time. But it is usually because it forgets it is neutered and tries to do something it isn't supposed to do and our VPNs nuke the connection. Like trying to call MS instead of our servers for telemetry, or trying to spin the module for a feature that doesn't exist in our network. Then it becomes very obvious how buggy and ungraceful the whole app is. It can't fail gracefully, it just craps itself and drags the whole computer with it.
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The first one can also just be a sign of ventriloquism, though.
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Confirmed hilarious by an actual stroke victim.
lol! You had a stroke!?
