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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.
I do have my own suspicions that a certain company deliberately degrades the quality of any software they release for platforms other than their own.
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I do have my own suspicions that a certain company deliberately degrades the quality of any software they release for platforms other than their own.
Strange, considering that Skype on OS X / iOS was (still is?) better - ie pasting links would generate a thumbnail in messaging, Windows got this only recently. Also OS X client didn't had that annoying 'unread' bug. So. I do have my suspicions that no one really cares about Linux on desktop and 99% people would agree, that even having a Linux client is a waste of time, and posts like yours are nothing but linux zeal…
The deep irony of this is that I prefer the linux client to the windows one (or did until it broke, haven't tried to make a call recently), because it is ad free, clean and simple. I wish there was a reverse-wine I could use to run it on windows.
I've been educating as many people (especially Management and Business people) as I can to switch over from Skype to any other alternative (like Hangouts). Because Skype is: * A memory hog * A bandwidth hog (its really inefficient about network usage, and uses a lot of bandwidth even when idle) * Has much lower call quality (a consequence of the above), just try having a call in Hangouts or Skype and notice that Hang…
* No desktop client
* Connected to your google account meaning I'll need to juggle several google accounts to keep my personal and business chats separate
Just the fact it doesn't have a native desktop client makes it unusable. I know there are workarounds I can use like nativefier but it's still not as smooth as a desktop app.
Running in the browser:
- Gets grouped with my other browser windows in my taskbar, making it hard to find
- Notifications might or might not work, depending on firefox's whims
- If for any reason firefox crashes all your communication crashes with it
- Susceptible to every single browser bug that allows silent loading of extensions that scrape all your data
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…
It is so bad that I literally cannot even give them my money.
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I do have my own suspicions that a certain company deliberately degrades the quality of any software they release for platforms other than their own.
Strange, considering that Skype on OS X / iOS was (still is?) better - ie pasting links would generate a thumbnail in messaging, Windows got this only recently. Also OS X client didn't had that annoying 'unread' bug. So. I do have my suspicions that no one really cares about Linux on desktop and 99% people would agree, that even having a Linux client is a waste of time, and posts like yours are nothing but linux zeal…
Would've retweeted if it wasn't for the #thanksBill hashtag... I haven't been on Windoze since I don't know how long. And the Mac Client is superb. Linux client, absolute desaster, indeed. But still, this has absolutely nothing to do with Bill.
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…
Google talk circa 2008 was a lot nicer than Hangouts is now, too. The resource usage was lower, the UI was nicer and it was more responsive. It's really a shame they killed it.
What good alternatives are there to Hangouts? Preferably something that doesn't require flaky browser plugins.
If the claim that the Linux client is no longer able to join calls is true, I think the Skype team really needs to respond. Microsoft has been doing all sorts of cool things lately and it's odd that the Skype team hasn't been a part of this movement toward a modern, multi-platform world. In my little corner of that world as the owner of an agency which spends money on Skype credit every day and uses Skype for a healt…
I made a call this morning (6 hours ago) and it worked[0] at that time.
I'm not on the same machine right now, but it is a Debian 8 64-bit build. Just installing Skype was a total pain.
If there was a viable alternative that had all the services Skype offers (Skype-Out and local numbers as well as the usual video/voice calling) I'd switch to it. However, I also need to convince my 70 year old Mum, on the other side of the world, who still uses Windows XP, because she's "used to it", and doesn't own a smartphone to switch too.
I've just seen ring.cx mentioned above and might investigate further.
[0] Worked: The person on the other end could hear and see me.