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I like your take and agree 100%. With the addition that referring to Windows 11 as “suboptimal” might be the understatement of the century.

Now, I could be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure an operating system and conferencing software are two different things.

Unless you're in video meetings most of your day. (Not judging)

For what it's worth, Teams is also available as a .deb/.rpm, which is I'd say unique for something with Microsoft in its name.

The teams .deb/.rpm sucks, and is an unmaintained electron app when MS temporarily "loving Linux".

If you want an optimal teams experience download edge and run the webapp in it.

They said they'd keep supporting skype on Linux too when worries about that popped up on purchase then broke that promise within less than a year. Github desktop was also soon to be officially supported with basically all the legwork done. Nice that there's a community fork.

The Teams desktop client on Linux has been retired.

https://www.omglinux.com/the-official-microsoft-teams-app-fo...

https://office365itpros.com/2022/09/19/teams-pwa-linux-clien...