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Hi folks!

I’m thinking about getting a Mac Mini M2 Pro, but I want to find out if people have had poor experiences running things like video calls from Teams in a guest OS. A couple of people I’ve talked to use the MacOS client for Teams, but I want to keep the accounts on the Windows install isolated from the host.

Anyone have perspective on the video and audio quality?

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[–] trashhalo@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm so sorry for everyone on teams. 🫂

[–] enbee@compuverse.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

from what little I know about virtualization I am reasonably sure that you can pass through the mic and camera to the guest windows VM and it should perform as if they were native

[–] GeekyOnion@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing! I appreciate it!

[–] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... another option: you use the web based Teams.

If you want more isolation, you could have a dedicated web browser for it.

Of course, the web version of Teams has a few annoying limitations (you can only see 4 people at the same time, opening multiple tabs to Teams kinda breaks it, etc), but it is endurable.

[–] sznio@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It at least performs better in browser than as a desktop app, for me at least.