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slack-libpurple
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Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin
Eion Robb has done an incredible amount of work in this space. His GitHub page[1] has tons of plugins, and I particularly appreciate the work he has done on the Matrix plugin to make it available to Windows users.
Lest you think this is less than cool because you don't use Pidgin, bitlbee[2] is a great tool to get slack (and others!) into your IRC client. I haven't run it myself, but I know that it heavily relies on purple[3] for its magic. I can tell it gets a lot of use, perusing the issues on the slack purple plugin[4] for example.
1: https://github.com/EionRobb?tab=repositories
2: https://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html
4: https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple/issues?q=is%3Aissue...
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GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
Unpopular opinion number one: James is not that bad. At least it can do video calls properly which is not something I would say of Slack.
Unpopular opinion number two: pidgi was better and I don't why we all decided as an industry to go to these ridiculously heavy memory hog electron based clients. I use Slack from Pidgin to this day: https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple
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Use Slack from Emacs?
Another alternative is combining bitlbee with slack-libpurple and using an emacs IRC client, such as the built-in ERC. I used this back when I wanted both Discord and Slack available in the same emacs.
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One Week of Libera Chat
It's not IRC, but there exists a working libpurple plugin that you just auth as with your normal user account:
https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple
I just use it with Pidgin, but there are curses clients too (I'm aware of bitlbee, there are probably others) if you prefer the IRC-style experience.
teams-for-linux
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Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365
I've never used this but apparently this wrapper is useful for linux people: https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux
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Tips for MS Teams on Linux?
Have you tried an unofficial electron client?
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Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux
I use https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux . It's "just" a wrapper around the PWA but a very decent one at that.
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Distro for a terrible 2013 laptop
Unofficial and not Microsoft supported, but might be an alternative to Microsoft's official PWA. How do the two compare in your experience with them?
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Steam to drop support for Windows 7/8/8.1 in 1st Jan 2024 due to embedded Chrome framework incompatibility
This client works well for me: https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux
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Microsoft rebuilt Teams from the ground up, promises 2x faster performance
There is also: https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux
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GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
That always frustrated me, even more-so considering how that volunteer-built package I mentioned (https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux - an Electron build of the web app, nothing flashy but does the job just fine) does support screen sharing. I haven’t checked whether it supports backgrounds as I only use voice when on calls, but I’m guessing it does if the browser variant does.
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Mircosoft Teams desktop client on Linux is being retired and will be replaced by a progressive web app (running on Chrome/Edge).
Personally I've always used unofficial Electron app made by community, it's in maintenance mode but it always worked for whatever I needed it to do. So I assume my experience will more or less stay the same since it's still a web app...
What are some alternatives?
nativefier - Make any web page a desktop application
nginx-obs-automatic-low-bitrate-switching - Simple app to automatically switch scenes in OBS based on the current bitrate fetched from the NGINX stats page.
onenote - 📚 Linux Electron Onenote - A Linux compatible version of OneNote
bitlbee - An IRC to other chat networks gateway :bee:
obs-web - OBS-web - the easiest way to control OBS remotely
wayland-keylogger - Proof-of-concept Wayland keylogger
lurch - XEP-0384: OMEMO Encryption for libpurple.
clap - Audio Plugin API
purple-signald - Pidgin libpurple bridge to signald.
chromium-web-store - Allows adding extensions from chrome web store on ungoogled-chromium. Also adds semi-automatic extension updating.
epichrome - An application and Chrome extension for creating web-based applications that work like standalone Mac apps.
manuskript - A open-source tool for writers