Ask Lemmy

I think it's because it's work. Its hard to have any positive feelings toward a tool used primarily to talk to annoying coworkers and bosses. It doesn't matter how good it bad it is.

No push to talk aside from some crappy implementation that requires window focus and can't be bound to a different key. Runs like absolute ass on their own hardware which I'm required to use at work

I’ve only experienced it from Linux and it’s a huge exercise in pain. It sometimes works, but it’s just stacks and stacks of hacks.

All the other things I’ve used work for video conferencing have worked fine in Linux or a browser.

It starts using an entire core for UI work when I move my mouse (Roccat Cone Pure 2017), and becomes unresponsive. Had to get a different mouse just for this shit. At least I got my workplace to pay for it.

Support did not even try to replicate the issue, instead they wanted me to upgrade to the "New" Teams when I explicitly told them that I didn't have that option in my org.

The amount of employer tracking that’s possible there makes me always feel that I’m being watched and metric’ed on my ‘productivity’

Why does ux layout eat so much screen space? We have a channel for the team to say hello at the start of shift, the lunch/goodnight.

The UX lets you see maybe 3-4 total posts at once. That is one example, but it takes so much effort of scrolling to be sure you’ve seen everything

I suspect the answer by a great many people will boil down to "because I used it [and it's shit]"

I want to use free open source software, and if I were a business customer I would certainly want my business to use free open source software when reasonable.

If all we're doing is sharing files and messaging each other, I don't know why we would need Teams. There are so many other options that work quite well.

I don't hate it, but I don't think it would typically solve my problems in ways that other software doesn't already do better.

At least in my work instance, by default it sends me an alert any time someone posts a reaction emoji in one of the dozen chat channels.

I actually like teams because it does way more than zoom for the same cost (I'm the one paying the bills, so that matters to me). My general experience is that people don't know how to fully use teams, so it gives a kinda terrible experience. For example, you can embed a PBI into a teams channel to make access to analytics easier. You can also embed a calendar/schedule/plan through planner. Someone at my company created a power app that serves as a menu to direct a user to helpful information, which was also embedded into teams. I guess the pattern you see here is that you can use it as a one stop shop for team info.

I’ve only used it for a couple of interviews…it’s dead clunky and awkward to use. To be honest I thought it was a me thing.

Teams insists on reordering the sidebar based on activity — it breaks my mental focus on work tasks when I’m ALWAYS looking for the chat thread I know is there, freaking somewhere, I was reading it just 10 minutes ago