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Not sure what you missed about Zoom. It's works, but doesn't feel smooth and seems to have a very big footprint for something with a specific use-case.

In particular, my day job is at a big corpo office space style place, and the software that requires the most updates is Zoom. I don't get why. It's also a lot less simple to use than Google Meet

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One of my clients insist on using Zoom. I have never installed it (after so many security issues in the earlier days, I'd rather not risk it). I just use it from the browser.

Every time I click to open a meeting it downloads the installer, which IMO is a horrible dark pattern. I despise them as a company, and don't find their product anything special.

That said, using it on the browser has an effectively null footprint and doesn't require updates.

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