Microsoft Teams
Microsoft has ended the Linux desktop app. On Linux you use Teams in a browser, optionally pinned as its own window.
Our verdict
Microsoft retired the Teams desktop app for Linux. Their own client documentation now lists Linux as not supported and points everyone to the web version. There is no official app to install.
In practice the web version does the work. Sign in at the Teams address in Chrome, Edge or Brave and you get chat, calls, meetings, channels and files. Those browsers can pin the page so it opens in its own window with its own icon, which is close enough to an app that most people stop noticing after a week.
What you give up is notifications when the browser is shut, and some of the polish around screen sharing and background effects. There is also a community wrapper on Flathub called Portal for Teams, built by an independent developer around the same web version. It is not a Microsoft product and it does not add features Microsoft has not put in the web app, so treat it as a convenience rather than a fix.
What's good
- The browser version covers chat, calls, meetings and files
- Any Chrome-based browser can pin it so it opens in its own window like an app
- Nothing to install and nothing to keep updated
- Works with your normal work sign-in
What to know first
- Microsoft's own documentation lists Linux as not supported for the Teams client
- No desktop app means no proper notifications when the browser is closed
- Screen sharing and background blur are more limited in a browser than in the Windows app
- The Flathub option is an unofficial wrapper around the web version by an independent developer, not a Microsoft product
The details
- Cost
- Free with paid extras
- Open source
- No (Proprietary)
- How you install it
- In your browser, App store (Flatpak)
Windows apps it can replace
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