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whatsapp client for linux with video call capabilities

hey !codecels i want to video call my boyfriend over whatsapp from my linux computer, how do I do that?? all of the whatsapp clients that i found are either just wrappers over the web version (video calling isnt supported on web) or dont support video calling periodt

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Just use Microsoft Teams

:#marseydemonicgrin:

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Why do you need to do this? Why not call him from your phone. I feel like WhatsApp specifically doesn't want you to be able to do this


Putting the :e: in :marseyexcited:

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>Linux

NGMI

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Any time I want to access one of our customers production environments I have to send their tech support team in India a message on Whatsapp to get a 2FA code. That's the sole reason I have ever used Whatsapp and it's completed r-slurred. Anyway I wanted to share.

Since I'm talking r-slurred have you tried using an android emulator and running whatsapp from there?

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I don't think Facebook is going to make a client for Linux, no.

You can't use anything more neutral like Telegram, Matrix, Signal, Google Meet, Jitsi, Jami….etc?


Follower of Christ :marseyandjesus: Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.

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did u try electron?

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:marseytrollcrazy: :marseytrollcrazy: "DID YOU TRY ELECTRON???"

GET THAT GLOBOHOMO SHIT OUT OF MY COMPUTER

also wdym "try electron"? electron is a framework. i dont know if the whatsapp desktop app was built with electron, and besides there isnt a source release of whatsapp client afaik

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Just answer the question please.

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no

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oops i meant element

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when did you get unbanned?

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When the music ended

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>Linux user

>Friends

:#marseyxdoubt:

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If you can passthrough a webcam you could try an android emulator. Idk if that's possible but it should be because I'm sure someone somewhere wants to test video functionality on an emulated app.

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Wine?

Legit tho just dualboot windows. It's free with the gravel patch thing

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BIPOC, run that shit in a VM. What is wrong with you people?

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No, there isn't a WhatsApp client except the web wrappers.

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If I recall the problem with this isn't anything to do with the actual whatsapp linux app but rather the fact that some distros don't come with webcam drivers. Go find whatever installs that, like 'Gnome Cheese'.

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webcam works fine.

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scrcpy for a hackish solution, with an old spare phone mounted as a "webcam"

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>boyfriend isn't a FOSS respector

:marseydisagree: If he can't recite the GPL from memory, he doesn't deserve you. Get yourself a matrix enjoyer

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there's probably an irc plugin

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Since when is promotion of gangbang considered as "sexual threat"?

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