I use zoom in linux, exclusively. It seems to suck.

When I join a meeting, I get 2 windows: a Gallery view where everybody is, all menu options, etc; Also I get a Speaker view, where the one on audio is zoomed in, & ScreenShares are displayed. Is that normal?

The gallery view window may fill screenfuls of viewers, and the arrows that allow you to page through the screenfuls are very erratic in appearing. How else can I move through who's there? I only get 25 per page. How can I see the rest?

Lastly, what implications derive from this? https://yro.slashdot.org/story/21/01...a-zoom-meeting

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/categories/200101697
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/art...-Zoom-on-Linux

Don't think you can ever have a private meeting with someone over Zoom.

My workplace have used it since the start of the first "lockdown" here in March last year. I've managed to avoid using it beyond sitting with someone else just out of camera shot...

If I am asked to use it, that's when the awkward conversation begins.

Thanks for the replies:

@Ondoho: Agreed.

@jamison20000e: Those pages seem to instruct on the usage of apt and rpm, neither of which I have. I have to use the 'other linux' tarball which ships with it's own self-contained libs and startup script that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH to it's own install dir. They seem the equivalent of the "How to Shine" type Car Manuals .

@cynwulf: I actually have an eye on the future, when we might have to take precautions, although we don't now. Back last March, we began using zoom for our Sunday & midweek meetings, which are open invitation affairs. There's international meeting visitors and social gatherings. Talking business secrets or doing international R&D might be a different matter.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/sea...y=Gallery+view
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/sea...y=Speaker+view
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us &c...

Thanks, but they're talking software function whereas I'm talking software MAL-function