That will get rid of it completely you won’t have some weird keys dangling in your registry because there is no registry there is the /etc/ folder with plain text configuration files instead of incomprehensible keys and DWORDS.Edit: Zoom 5.8.0 supports virtual background without greenscreen!Īs of writing this, Zoom does not support person/face-detection based virtual background in their Linux-version software. P.S If you feel like you don’t need ZOOM anymore you can always fire up a terminal and type sudo apt purge zoom. When you know what you are doing it’s much much easier than using GUI for some but not all tasks. That’s why you see a lot of people preferring to use the terminal in Ubuntu or any other version of Linux. In fact, we could chain all these commands using & and just paste them to the terminal and be done with it. Ubuntu will hunt down the missing packages and install them for you before compeleting the ZOOM install. If you get dependency errors you can fix this by using the command sudo apt install -f.Linux there are several other ways you could do it too. Launch and use ZOOM like you do on Windows or Android.

Once the installation is complete, press the Windows key and type ZOOM.

Right click on the file and select open with software install.

Once the file has finished downloading go to the downloads folder.

The ZOOM download page will automatically see you are using Linux and ask you to choose which Linux distro you are using.

In fact, I would argue that it’s even easier to install and use ZOOM on Ubuntu than it is on Windows but you already know that I am a hopelessly biased Ubuntu Linux user who has been doing this for over a decade. Here is how you can install and use ZOOM on Ubuntu 20.04Īs for ZOOM you can use install and use it on Ubuntu Linux.

There is even a guide on how to make your desktop environment look like XP in this day and age. You can even install several of them, customise them to look like anything including Mac or Windows. It has several desktop environments and you are free to choose the one you want. He also claimed you cannot install or use Zoom on Ubuntu with a triumphant smirk on his face. Things like it don’t have a GUI desktop and therefore it’s difficult to use.

This weekend for example during a casual discussion about computers one “expert” who clearly hates Linux had some pretty bizarre points to justify his stance. Sometimes people who have never used Ubuntu or Linux say the strangest things.

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