I meant it works relatively speaking. To be fair Google meet is usable too, but Zoom does better with huge numbers of participants.

There seems to be a law that states that all messenger apps must be bloated slow junk and must accumulate cruft over time until they turn to mush.

I found that making the window smaller greatly reduced CPU usage. It seems to be doing the video decoding on the CPU.

I came to the conclusion that if you want to run Linux, you must run Windows as well :) Sucks, but true.

Hopefully in a VM (sandbox), like all proprietary software should be ran.