Multiple serious issues with Zoom Client for Linux

Hi, Zoom causes a lot of issues on Linux. I am using the latest official Zoom from Manjaro’s repositories. Or Flatpak. Doesn’t matter, these issues appear in both of them. They are very frustrating.

1. Screensharing only works with “Pipewire” mode. Sharing mode keeps getting reset to "Auto", which means after one screen share, if I want to share again, its just a black window. This happened to me during surgery planning, and that was really really bad and embarrassing. My colleagues could not see the MRI, and the chief surgeon/scientist lost patience. This is unacceptable. We pay for Zoom.

2. Everytime someone starts or stops a screenshare, regardless of any KDE window settings, even if I am in the middle of typing something in a terminal or working on a document or something, it switches to the Zoom window/virtual desktop without asking. No amount of config prevents this. It is unacceptable that a program changes user settings without asking. And controls desktop switching without asking.

3. Zoom crashes 2-3 times on startup and login, and then everything gets reset to defaults, and I have to login again, and change all my settings including changing screensharing to Pipewire instead of Auto.

4. Plasmashell freezes and restarts in the middle of meetings. Even with prime render offload. 

I’m honestly very frustrated, and such things should not happen, especially when dealing with work like surgery. 

I would be grateful for any help.