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  • i tested the video today on my linux laptop.  it was extremely slow, and messenger was noticably slower.  messenger ran before flawlessly, but now is slow and strange.    we tried a conference with three people.  
    "the audio is extremely choppy, it sounds like you're under water or something, or like there are ten of you."
    "your video works though,"
    "this is strange, lets try again tomorrow." (after half hour of trying for it to work.)
    me: hmm. also, the window dragging around noticably screwed up the entire messenger chat. it almost felt like the window did not want to re-draw itself fast enough to be dragged around. as if it was "heavy" it didnt want to move around much.
    also sending text from the chat into messenger was impossibly slow (7-8 seconds) for load of chat in jitsi, and 4-5 seconds for message to appear in jitsi, and then another 3-4 seconds for it to copy into messenger history, while trying to drag window around to see if it went in added another 12-24 seconds give or take.
    it may be my laptops age, 2017, it may be something else. just wanted to inform. :)

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    also, video message into group chat did not work after the fact when i tried to apologize to my friends, but in messenger 11.0.1 these messages of video worked fine.  (there was no audio attached to the mime type, brief error flashed.)

    linux mint 18- kernel 4.4.x

    • well, where it really shines is if you for some reason need the ability to run a windowed application, and or feel a need to or want to, but with the absolute minimal crap possible to make it run.

      you install square tiles and can put them along the edge of the screen in order you choose, set the single or double click to launch, right click them for other options, i think the entire thing weighs in at under 16 megabytes.. it's pretty epically brilliant..  

      one could think of it as a framebuffer to run xterm inside of, but nearly as responsive as a native TTY VT100 terminal..  no bloat.

      • Sounds pretty slick. Will have to try it out one day. Thanks for the info

        • as the young hoolingans say, 'fa'sho.'  hahahaha.  but yeah its rad.  i've used it for years.  it is the fastest window manager, hands down, minus like that other one that doesn't do much by modern standards, i forget the name, but oh rat something..  super old