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Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client

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Re: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client

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Post by lawl »

StavrosK wrote: post #28
akerro wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use tox[1] with my family and some friends. https://tox.chat/

Does that have a native app for the desktop? I'm tired of everything using Electron and requiring hundreds of megabytes of RAM for simple stuff :-(

https://tox.chat/clients.html

Re: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client

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Post by fithisux »

akerro wrote: post #22
SunShiranui wrote: post #18

Skype has been getting worse and worse over the years. Personally I've switched to Telegram for chats, and I'll be looking for alternatives as far as voice calls are concerned.

I use tox[1] with my family and some friends. https://tox.chat/

I have to investgate further. Is libvpx used?

Re: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client

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Post by sangnoir »

LoSboccacc wrote: post #84
haddr wrote: post #40

Skype on Linux is far inferior recently. Mostly due to the fact that the Linux version has been somehow abandoned. It haven't received updates since at least 1 year. For example, one recent change is that when someone sends a picture, on Linux you are sent a link to it, where you have to go to the Skype website and login in order to view it (and login each time you open a link). Sometimes it's a resized version of th…

tbf maintaining anything proprietary under linux is a chore, with the ABI changing every year for no reason and yet having to support users having all kind of version combinations. I can see how a company would hate devoting that much resources for pleasing a smaller user base.

> maintaining anything proprietary under linux is a chore, with the ABI changing every year for no reason

Is Skype a special snowflake to the extent that it's an impossible task? Skype-on-Linux's problem are caused by interface changes with the server API, not the ABI. Recompiling isn't rocket science.

Re: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client

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Post by Kenji »

They keep ignoring all their users, Windows too. A couple of weeks ago, they shipped a completely broken version that would crash regularly and scramble the message order randomly if the messages were sent within ~1 minute. Hello QA? Where are you? Hello beta testing? You cannot ship a program this broken to all your users?!

Re: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client

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Post by pritambarhate »

nakedrobot2 wrote: post #31

Skype worked far, far better 10 years ago than it does today. From all indications I've seen, Skype is getting dramatically worse all the time. From a personal standpoint, it crashes for me multiple times a day and I can rarely get group calls working on the first try. Often Skype requires a force-quit and then it crashes twice more when it is being restarted. This is on Mac and Android. Fun fact: I have a friend who…

In the past year, the Mac client has also become very fragile. If I quit the Skype App without signing out, next time login keeps failing unless I go to the library folder and delete my Skype user profile directory. Quite shameful for such a high profile software.

Re: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client

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Post by StreamBright »

lpsz wrote: post #67
StreamBright wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Best feature is when the wifi drops out it gets unresponsive and you need to kill the app, re-log and redial to get back to were you were. Even WeChat handles that gracefully on my phone.

Curious why "even" WeChat. WeChat over the years has been one of the most reliable apps I use including for video/voice chat.

Well you are right, should not have used even. I agree with you WeChat is the most reliable app that I know of for voice and video chat.
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