Nicole 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈Sep 15, 2024

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)?

Show threadJoe LanmanSep 15, 2024
@nicole Discord or slack?
Show threadNicole 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈Sep 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 Lanman
@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
Sep 15, 2024 at 5:47pmWeb
Show threadNicole 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈Sep 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.