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#2 However, the app lacks advanced features
like screen sharing and API access.
It also excludes advanced video and audio
controls that you can access on
Windows or Mac OS platforms.
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#3Baity title? I isn't really retiring the app completely, it's only retiring a version and substituting it with the latest one...
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#4It is a pity as the new app (that replaces this) doesn't support some important features and the ones it supports, are pretty basic (e.g no settings/testing for camera and mic).
Microsoft also does not provide a solution for Skype for Business as well which is a serious drawback imo.
Though in some cases I am quick to blame MS, in this case many of their rivals are in a similar state unfortunately.
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#5Baity title? I isn't really retiring the app completely, it's only retiring a version and substituting it with the latest one...
Yeah. The link in the FTA takes me to Skype download page and trying to install the deb file says that the version is 5.3.0.1. The notice on that page only says :
> All Skype for Linux clients version 4.3 and older will be retired on July 1, 2017. To keep chatting, please install the latest version of Skype for Linux
Seems like 4.3 and older will get retired, but Skype will continue to work on Linux with later versions like 5.3.0.1
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#6Seems like skype is mostly dead anyway. I remember a few years ago many of the network news agencies exclusively relied on skype (I assume this was an advertising deal with MS because of how much I heard the brand mentioned), but now I see more mentions (adverts) of facetime and never hear about skype.
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#7I had an interview this morning which was via Skype, which I don't use. Gave my MacBook Pro r2013 to the missus, so all I had was the Android app on my Nexus 6p and the new app for Linux on my XPS 13.
I did some tests beforehand and the Linux app doesn't even connect to the Skype Test account. So I used the Android app and the voice quality was so bad I had to riff on some things. We reconnected 2/3 times and it was uniformly awful. Never had these problems on my 80/20 fibre connection with Hangouts.
Skype is awful, the Linux app is crap, it needs to die in a fire.
EDIT: I even enabled upnpd on my gateway router in case that was the problem - nope, still fubar.
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#8At least there is web.skype.com, which works with audio + video in some cases, not all... Come on MS, since Ballmer and Gates are gone, you have shown your true potential for innovation and OSS. Just open the protocol, the community will do the rest.
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#9Baity title? I isn't really retiring the app completely, it's only retiring a version and substituting it with the latest one...
I think the point is that it is retiring the full featured v4.3 and replacing it with the Beta version that is missing features - the big one for me was that I couldn't share my screen.
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#10Baity title? I isn't really retiring the app completely, it's only retiring a version and substituting it with the latest one...
Yeah. The link in the FTA takes me to Skype download page and trying to install the deb file says that the version is 5.3.0.1. The notice on that page only says : > All Skype for Linux clients version 4.3 and older will be retired on July 1, 2017. To keep chatting, please install the latest version of Skype for Linux Seems like 4.3 and older will get retired, but Skype will continue to work on Linux with later versio…
If you are willing to call it "working", that is. I take it from the other commenters that "working" might be an overstatement.