Ask HN: Is there something like Join.me for Linux?

by xstartup on 3/22/2018, 1:48 PM with 22 comments

For over a year Linux support has been the second-most-popular request on the official join.me Ideas Forum and there are over 1800 votes for the idea:

http://help.join.me/forums/182750-join-me-ideas-forum/suggestions/3466551-make-a-version-compatible-with-linux-ubuntu-12-04

  • by diggan on 3/22/2018, 3:31 PM

    We've (IPFS community) have weekly open calls for the entire community and had great success with Zoom. I'm personally on Ubuntu, Arch and macOS, and everything is working fine and they continuously improve the software. Seems to have a free plan as well: https://zoom.us/pricing

    Edit: adding that the few times I had to resort to using my phone, Zoom on Android has been working fine, even thought the UX is a bit confusing on mobile devices (Android version at least)

  • by Sir_Cmpwn on 3/22/2018, 3:41 PM

    https://jitsi.org/

    This is open source and free and so on

  • by gtirloni on 3/22/2018, 2:28 PM
  • by schaum on 3/22/2018, 3:41 PM
  • by eat_veggies on 3/22/2018, 5:59 PM

    I used https://appear.in/ for a job interview once and it was pretty slick.

  • by mccricardo on 3/22/2018, 3:36 PM
  • by kennydude on 3/22/2018, 3:28 PM

    Zoom seems to have compatibility and works well.

  • by amclennon on 3/22/2018, 3:40 PM

    Zoom.us seems to work well using the browser extension alone. I've even gotten it to work in my Chromebook without any issues.

  • by chasedehan on 3/22/2018, 3:25 PM

    I'm curious as well - I have a really hard time getting videos to work on linux.

  • by 0x4f3759df on 3/22/2018, 3:42 PM

    I use Chrome Remote Desktop for Windows, but it is also available on Linux.

  • by grover_hartmann on 3/22/2018, 7:24 PM

    I dislike that zoom.us requires a proprietary plugin.

  • by taf2 on 3/24/2018, 11:41 AM

    Appear.in