Zoom, Teams Status etc.

decuser

decuser

What is the status of Zoom on FreeBSD or Teams for that matter? Anyone using it daily? This is a show stopper for me these days. I love FreeBSD but I can't escape the need for web conference on a near daily basis and it's Zoom 9/10 times with Teams making the occasional appearance. The last time I went FreeBSD (14.x) as a daily driver this just wasn't workable. Also, I'm kinda of the opinion that if I have to use the Linux version of Zoom on FreeBSD, I may as well just use Linux since the whole point of my using a BSD is to reduce complexity, not increase it with compat layers, but... if it were to work as well as it does on Linux, I might just sacrifice a principle or two for the gain of a sane environment. Although, I have been enjoying a systemd-free life over on Devuan lately :).

Oh, and bonus points, I have an NVidia RTX4070 driving my external monitor... is there an nvidia driver for this card on FreeBSD (I see nvidia drivers, but they look older)?
 
On occasion, we have Zoom meetings. I don't have a microphone on my desktop, so I connect with Linux on a laptop. However, I can also log in with my desktop, and share screens using zoom. This is through the web, not an app on the computer (both with Linux and FreeBSD.) This also works with meet.google.com (not sure what the official name is). Same deal laptop for audio and share screen on the desktop. Desktop has an Nvidia GT1030 card, using the Nvidia 580 drivers and kmods. Although I haven't tested it, it seems if I had a microphone on this desktop it would work. (Our meetings are quite informal, don't use the camera but again, it seems as if it would work if it were there).
 
Teams, the web version, works fine in Chromium (chat, audio, 1 on 1 video calls, group calls,etc), not so much on Firefox (chat is allways fine, calls not so much).
In general things should work fine on Chromium if there is a web client.
 
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