Nicole šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø šŸŒˆ

I'm looking for a good screenshare and pair programming tool.

zoom works very well, but I don't want to support them. Google Meet, Jitsi, and other WebRTC tools tend to have quality optimized for faces, not screens/text. and purpose-built tools like Tuple and Coscreen tend to not support Linux.

what's a girl to do? what do you all recommend (with linux support)?

Sep 15, 2024 at 5:25pmWeb
Show threadJoe LanmanSep 15, 2024
@nicole Discord or slack?
Show threadNicole šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø šŸŒˆSep 15, 2024
@joelanman I'm 0/2 for those working for me, but that's with two attempts each. Slack "huddles" just didn't work on my work computer, and Discord call screensharing broke for me the one time I tried them on my personal computer. maybe Discord is worth another shot, though.
Show threadJoe LanmanSep 15, 2024
@nicole for what its worth, I've done a lot of tech support over Meet screen share and it was ok, not quite as good as some others but ok
Show threadNicole šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø šŸŒˆSep 15, 2024
@joelanman yeah we use it at work and it's generally okay but we have a speed demon on our team and when he's writing code it absolutely cannot keep up lmao. and when I did my Recurse Center pairing interview it couldn't reliably share more than a very small terminal window (on a gigabit fiber connection!) so it's just iffy for me.
Show threadSam Lifson-NeubardtSep 15, 2024
@nicole we use Slack, and Pop on Linux and they work pretty well
Show threadNicole šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø šŸŒˆSep 15, 2024
@samn oh I forgot about Pop! I'll have to give it a shot again, thanks.
Show threadBleistifterinSep 15, 2024
@nicole Bigbluebutton?
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Show threadNicole šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø šŸŒˆSep 15, 2024
@bleistifterin have you used it? Iā€™m a little wary because it seems to be webrtc as well, but maybe worth a shot.
Show threadBleistifterinSep 15, 2024
@nicole
I think I did (not really sure, we were trying a lot of stuff during the lockdown years) But I know I will:
I have a meeting scheduled for me (by someone else) with bbb - that is probably why it was on my mind right now.
It is also quite common for virtual teaching in Germany I believe. Maybe you could try it for your use case?