I believe this is not entirely Zoom's fault, I've heard a few horror stories with Wayland and screensharing over the last few years. Particularly when I once tried using OBS Studio and it just didn't work on Wayland. I also remember screenshare from things like Google Meet or Discord only being able to share other chromium tabs and not able to share the desktop or any specific applications.
This whole story sounds to me like some engineer at Zoom was tasked with fixing "linux" back in 2020 and after having several issues similar to what I described (possibly unable to capture other applications?) they decided that quickly screenshotting the screen was a good enough fix. Sadly linux still represents a minority of users so this issue was probably not prioritized as necessary.
This whole story sounds to me like some engineer at Zoom was tasked with fixing "linux" back in 2020 and after having several issues similar to what I described (possibly unable to capture other applications?) they decided that quickly screenshotting the screen was a good enough fix. Sadly linux still represents a minority of users so this issue was probably not prioritized as necessary.