Somehow I collect low-powered laptops, and it would be nice to video chat on them without teetering on the edge of my desktop being frozen while I do it. Unfortunately, aside from Zoom - which doesn’t have an ARM+Linux client - most of the video conferencing software I know of are WebRTC-based.

My question - can anyone suggest video conferencing software that is speedier than your average browser-based solution? I expect that whatever it is will require the other end to run the same software, and that’s ok.

For reference, Google Meet and Jitsi Meet are the two I’ve tried. I briefly tried Teams, but it was having none of it.

Thank you!

  • @just_another_person
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    38 hours ago

    Can you post some hardware specs? In general, the local client is going to use similar resources as a browser session since it’s just a repacking of the same software in most cases unless it’s horribly handled. Slack comes to mind in this instance.

    Some details about what the actual issues are might be helpful as well.