Possibly, yet against their best efforts, their shit works better now, see the end of this comment. But first:
I’ve ranted about this before, but Zoom is bone-chillingly badly written software. It’s also the only piece of software that I’ve never seen the code of, but will make comments about code quality and development practice with 100% certainty.
Zoom has broken for me in so many many completely insane and creative ways that the only explanation is that they have nobody keeping things in check and just an army of interns hacking away at things half-assedly until they “work”.
If there are 3 nice and standard ways to do things that can be easily googled, Zoom does a given thing in 2 more ass-backwards ways that make no sense and are fragile as fuck. E.g. they did screen sharing using GNOME’s screenshot API, at a time when every tutorial told you to use the dedicated cross-DE screencast API. When called out, they switched to a different GNOME API.
I think at this point they finally fixed it by actually using the API people told them to use years earlier, but who knows what other inane mistakes are still there to prevent things from working.
For instance, screen sharing is broken on one of machines. It works once and then leaks the handle. Making it impossible to share again until rebooting.
It used to crash entirely when exiting sharing and their bugfix was to swallow the exception instead of a proper fix.
tl;dr: if there’s any issue with Zoom, you can always bet that it’s Zoom’s fault. Its bug density is just so much higher than anything else you run on a regular system.
Well… you just said no software works. They’ve given you counter examples, now you either have to cite examples of software not working with screen sharing or you’re the fool
Then you should have said “for me” or “on my machine”, but instead you said “no screen sharing software works on it” in a context where “it” can only be interpreted as Wayland in general.
Zoom still doesn’t work right on Wayland.
Possibly, yet against their best efforts, their shit works better now, see the end of this comment. But first:
I’ve ranted about this before, but Zoom is bone-chillingly badly written software. It’s also the only piece of software that I’ve never seen the code of, but will make comments about code quality and development practice with 100% certainty.
Zoom has broken for me in so many many completely insane and creative ways that the only explanation is that they have nobody keeping things in check and just an army of interns hacking away at things half-assedly until they “work”.
If there are 3 nice and standard ways to do things that can be easily googled, Zoom does a given thing in 2 more ass-backwards ways that make no sense and are fragile as fuck. E.g. they did screen sharing using GNOME’s screenshot API, at a time when every tutorial told you to use the dedicated cross-DE screencast API. When called out, they switched to a different GNOME API.
I think at this point they finally fixed it by actually using the API people told them to use years earlier, but who knows what other inane mistakes are still there to prevent things from working.
Hear hear. They can’t keeo up though, with standards changing every 20 years or so…
As someone who uses many of its features for job interviews on a Wayland machine, what doesn’t work?
For instance, screen sharing is broken on one of machines. It works once and then leaks the handle. Making it impossible to share again until rebooting.
It used to crash entirely when exiting sharing and their bugfix was to swallow the exception instead of a proper fix.
no screen sharing software works on it.
Liar. Proof by contradiction: Everything I use works (KDE Plasma).
You can include Google meet, rust desk and jitsi as well
Yeh, zoom works on one of my two main machines on wayland…
See my rant about Zoom here: https://vger.to/lemmy.ml/comment/22183939
tl;dr: if there’s any issue with Zoom, you can always bet that it’s Zoom’s fault. Its bug density is just so much higher than anything else you run on a regular system.
Meet also works with screen sharing on Wayland, so I’ve no idea what the GP is about tbh
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Three-day suspension. Come back when you’ve learned to regulate your emotions.
Thank you!
You said “no screen sharing software”.
Consequently, that was a lie. Or you suck at expressing yourself and meant something different than what you wrote. But as written, definitely a lie.
Well… you just said no software works. They’ve given you counter examples, now you either have to cite examples of software not working with screen sharing or you’re the fool
never have I had any of these work for me, I’m not the only one either.
still doesn’t make me a liar and we can both be right.
Then you should have said “for me” or “on my machine”, but instead you said “no screen sharing software works on it” in a context where “it” can only be interpreted as Wayland in general.
And that’s wrong and you know it.
What you said is literally incorrect. There are screen sharing applications that work on Wayland. I just used one ten minutes ago.
so you’re sticking with “it works on my machine” then. cool.
also incorrect does not mean liar.
incorrect means not correct.
You said “no screen sharing software works on it”. If “it” is anything other than your POS laptop, then you’re a fucking liar
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No u
I screen share on Slack with Wayland at work every day