Zoom for Linux not working well with newer distributions

I know it has been a while since you posted, but it seems the problem with Pipewire is still persistent in 2023. Since I switched to Pipewire (on Debian Bookworm) Zoom always crashes at start. It seems to require Pulseaudio in a time when more and more distributions have switched to Pipewire completely.

Any plans to fix this soon?

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@GiuseppeA wrote:

Screensharing is also not working, although I've read of a workaround using OBS studio and creating a virtual camera. But it's, in fact, a workaround.

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For context, Zoom incorrectly implemented their screensharing on modern gnu+linux distributions which use Wayland. Zoom did not introduce Wayland support until March 1, 2020 version 3.5.361976.0301. This was broken upon release because they did not use the correct API (gdbus-org.freedesktop.portal.ScreenCast) which has been available since early 2018: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/releases/tag/0.10. This resulted in issues for multi-monitor setups, problems with HiDPI screens, unusable performance, and other glitches from the beginning, and now it is broken completely.

Many users are switching to affordable, reliable, backed-by-open-source options like https://8x8.vc, powered by Jitsi (plus, they didn't lie to their users about end-to-end encryption and get sued). The screenshot API exists only for the system to take screenshots (of course). It is very inefficient for video but what's worse is it is also completely insecure because in order for it to be publicly enabled, applications have full access to record your entire screen without explicit permission.

The correct API was designed for video, and gives the user control over sharing specific windows/apps or the entire screen, so no app gets to spy on your screen without your permission. So when Zoom created their  implementation they used the wrong API, and for the almost two years since then Zoom still didn't update, ignored the users with issues, did not monitor for deprecating APIs, and did not test upcoming gnu+linux distributions like Fedora to see that the API they use was incorrect, long been deprecated, and imminently disabled. This left many users and developers to do the testing and investigation for them, but still took nine months to be recognized. Finally, they are working on this now, so we will see how long the fix takes.

Full discussion here: https://community.zoom.com/t5/Meetings/Wayland-screen-sharing-broken-with-GNOME-41-on-Fedora-35/td-p/22539

I am also having major problems running Zoom under Fedora 35.
Fedora 35 by default runs the Pipewire audio daemon,
and my outgoing audio (my spoken voice) was extremely
distorted.

I switched from Pipewire to the PulseAudio daemon,
and my spoken voice problem was fixed.

HOWEVER, I teach music classes and I need to
play audio files while I share my desktop.

Still, even though I am running the PulseAudio daemon,
when I try to share my desktop, Zoom displays this message:

"You need to install PulseAudio(1.0 and above) to support Audio Share"

even though I am running PulseAudio VERSION 15 !!
So the Desktop Share feature is not recognizing
PulseAudio.

I have reported this problem to Zoom support, as
ticket 13239618 but Zoom support NEVER gets
back to me!

So now I am in this forum. Zoom Moderator,
can you look into this issue for me?

Same here. Zoom is now unusable even under normal circumstances. Audio cuts out repeatedly, and the strange thing is, sometimes just opening the audio settings and keeping it open helps the audio stay connected. Though even with it open, sometimes the audio still gets disconnected and I need to switch the audio devices back and forth. This happens so constantly I can't use Zoom for any meetings now.