Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux

For the Educational use in online classrooms we try to use Teams client in our son's GNU/Linux desktop computer. And we praise Microsoft Teams' Team for its efforts to delivery a truly cross-platform product and service: The Teams for Linux itself installs and works out-of-the-box neatly! 

However, as users phrxmd, Michael_Massee, nneul, EriolBrumel, ChristianEgo and tier1banter have already pointed out in the previous posts, we have also noticed that Teams for Linux [version 1.3.00.5153 (64 bits)] has unfortunately become outdated 😞 since it lacks some crucial features that have been recently added to the Windows 10 client, which I use in large corporate environment, especially for the current work at home.

All in all, these features make a lot of difference in meetings and in online classrooms as well. So, dear Marissa Salazar, can Teams' Team please launch an update for the Teams for Linux?

"Raise Hands is missing (you even don't see it when others raise their hands, making it hard to participate fully in meetings). Lots of convenience features are missing -3x3 view, background blur, background image - and application window sharing and sharing PowerPoints are missing as well." ~ @phrxmd

 

vote here

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/40324324-keep-the-linux-client... ~ @Michael_Massee

Additionaly, imho, another critical "issue" of the Teams client, at least on both Windows and GNU/Linux, is the apparent lack of control of the webcamera. As an example, using a Logitech HD C615, it does not respect the default image size (or another size configured with the vendor's software) and just shows the entire wider view of the camera (the whole irrelevant area or room). For comparison, when using Skype for Business side by side, in corporate environment as well, the default narrower size of the image taken by the same webcam is respected and you even have built-in controls for zoom, auto-focus and some advanced settings. Those controls of the webcamera (and perhaps also an image rotation for smartphones) would surely be also a widely welcome feature for the Teams client.

Thank you in advance.

“Constructive criticism, which points out defects and the means of remedying them, is the basis of progress; (. . .) criticism should be made for the purpose of helping, not to wantonly besmirch the character of a fellow-being because we have found a little stain.” -- Max Heindel:rose: