How do you get past all the incompatibility of video calls on Linux? All I get is screen tearing and inconsistent screen sharing experiences.

I did a stint on Fedora and Arch but I found myself fighting against the OS.

Has anyone got past these issues or do your eyes just not see screen tearing anymore šŸ˜….

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@Crudge since I found the proper configuration options for the compositor, my tearing issues are a thing of the past :).

Video calls with most meeting platforms work best with chromium based browsers (e.g. chromium, chrome).

@blasfisq what OS are you using? I’m looking for one that will work well on an M3

@Crudge I use GNU Guix. It takes some effort to configure it properly. So it depends a bit on your knowledge and your capability of suffering if you like to go down that road ;).

I think Arch is a good system as well is Debian.

I use sway (tiling window manager) with xwayland (not pure wayland).

@Crudge also this solution seems interesting for screen sharing, if that does not work properly.

Same goes for this solution: https://superuser.com/a/1560749 (same thread).

Both a bit hacky, but should do just fine once they are set up.

Screensharing under Wayland

I am using Wayland with Fedora 25. Pretty much no screensharing tool works correctly. From Chrome, I can share a Chrome window, but nothing else. I also have to use zoom.us and when I share a windo...

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@blasfisq thanks mate appreciate it.