I agree with this wholeheartedly. Zoom on Ubuntu works perfectly. It supports switching audio and video sources, annotating, screen sharing with previews of screens, window sharing, even break out rooms and the chat. Some things feel a bit unpolished but it pretty much just works.
The only thing I ever had trouble with are custom backgrounds, and they are a little silly anyway.
Zoom works without a hitch on Ubuntu here. Even plays nicely with the tiling WM with multiple workspaces (somehow, a thumbnail window follows you through as you flip through workspaces).
In addition to everything already mentioned, Zoom has great screen sharing quality and very, very importantly, is the only solution that supports Linux with a native client, which means proper screen sharing and much more.
Linux desktop adoption may not be great, but many good software engineers use it for work. In our team it's hard to find a windows laptop. Zoom is the only software that works for us.
PopOS! Gnome & Wayland. Native Zoom works very well. Never crashes. And finally has virtual backgrounds.
Only issue is Firefox windows are invisible when screen sharing, so I use Chromium for those sessions if I need to show a browser.
I'm using a relatively simple setup (Ubuntu 21.10 on wayland, single hiDPI tablet display - no secondary gpu, no second monitor) and was frustrated to see Zoom screensharing only show the upper right quarter of the screen (presumably due to not accounting for hidpi) recently.
This said, it generally works fine, and am thankful Zoom at least exists on Linux.
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"If you're stuck using Zoom [...] we can work to pry our organizations and loved ones away from the hapless engineering at Zoom."
I disagree with this sentiment. Zoom has been a huge enabler with it's setup to minimize video/audio latency compared to the other solutions I've seen when faciliating a global audience that doesn't necessarily have fast internet access.
I use their standalone program on Ubuntu at work; we're switching from hangouts/meet to zoom for a lot (though ad-hoc stuff will likely remain hangouts due to it only being one-click to start one up). It's pretty straightforward, I've almost never had issues.
That is odd, one of the reasons I really like zoom is how well it works under Linux. It seems to "just work", and the Linux client doesn't feel like an after-thought. FWIW, running Fedora 31 with KDE/Plasma. I really like not having a browser-based video conferencing app, but a Linux native one.
Zoom has better Linux support than almost any proprietary desktop application of similar complexity. For pretty much anything else only a web client is provided. My non-technical wife has no trouble using the Ubuntu version, flipping between using the laptop sound and earbuds. True, she doesn't need desktop sharing and there are issues with that.
The fact that there's any support at all for desktop Linux (beyond "it works in the browser") is pretty amazing, and it's probably better not to crap all over the people who have done 80-90% of the job for the missing 10-20%.
Zoom works great on Linux, it's a proper native app and the quality is excellent. Screensharing is notoriously tricky on Wayland and has been a shifting target that is just now starting to settle, I'm sure it'll eventually work.
I am disappointed with the constant hostility by Wayland proponents to projects which have problems with screencasting (i.e. literally everyone). Even prominent OSS projects like OBS only implemented it recently.
The only thing I ever had trouble with are custom backgrounds, and they are a little silly anyway.
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