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As a datapoint, I use Teams on Linux (desktop app) and I have to say that I love it. I would not say it is slow and clunky as you say.

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As another datapoint, I also use Teams on Linux (Mint 20) and although it's generally fine to use, on a couple of occasions it has completely frozen my desktop PC about 1 hour into a meeting and I've had to hit the power button to get going again.

Wait, a client app is able to freeze your Linux computer to the extent that you have to power off your computer?

I would not surprised. The MS Teams client here uses more RAM than all the other programs I have on my desktop, including but not limited to my desktop environment itself (Gnome) and Firefox with plenty of open tabs.

Yep,

I haven't had the inclination to investigate, but I suspect it's something like a memory leak that eats up all the (16GB) RAM and then swaps the system to death. Maybe if I was patient enough I could get an alternative console prompt and poke around, but when you need to get back into that meeting....

The Windows client is really really slow. Nearly every time I click on it and start typing I get about 10 characters in before it pauses and does something for about 15 to 60 seconds, and then I can finish my message when it's done.

I especially like that you have to killall -9 teams to exit it. Installed as official deb from MS.

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