NotAnArdvark

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[โ€“] NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How long have you been using Kmail?

I tried maybe 3 years ago and I found it incredibly buggy. I've been using Thunderbird, but definitely wish there was a KDE or Qt-native mail app that did what I wanted.

[โ€“] NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

One is a Pinebook Pro, which is an RK3399 processor. Another is a Surface Go 2 with an Intel Pentium Gold Processor 4425Y.

The actual issue is that the video conferencing works, but trying to do anything else is just suuuper slow. Well, the Surface Go 2 is actually fairly good as long as I'm not touching the ZRAM. But, trying to share a window in Google Meet will always involve a lot of waiting. Firefox and Chromium seem equivalent on the Surface, but the Pinebook seems better in Chromium lately.

I can bare-bones most apps I use on these laptops, but for video conferencing it seems like I have to drag along a whole browser.

 

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!