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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
by haddr 11y ago
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 the picture which makes things worse. Another thing is the screen sharing. On Linux you can't share screen with more that 1 person, making it useless for telcos at work. And there is much more...
- S4M 11y ago>Another thing is the screen sharing. On Linux you can't share screen with more that 1 person, making it useless for telcos at work. And there is much more... Consider yourself lucky, for me screen sharing doesn't seem to work at all.
- manyxcxi 11y agoI gave up on Skype screen sharing forever ago. Even with good connections it would pixelate and distort to being illegible too often. I, frankly haven't found Hangouts much better. We've all but given up on them and use a combo of a free-ish conference app like Uber Conference and Join.Me, Slack, and FaceTime for audio. Except for the one guy with Android, that I then wind up actually having to call from my phone. Ugh, who wants to use a phone these days?
- ricardolopes 11y agoI've switched from Linux to OS X 3 years ago, and even then Skype on Linux was considered abandonware and far inferior to the other OS's versions. It's sad to see it doesn't seem to get any better.
- LoSboccacc 11y agotbf 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.
- lawl 11y ago> with the ABI changing every year for no reason and yet having to support users having all kind of version combinations. What? That is simply not true, the Kernel never breaks userspace. And "version combinations" are solved by linking statically.
- LoSboccacc 11y agognome breaks userspace, kde breaks userspace etc. skype is not just linked against the kernel after all, but a whole lot of different components
- lawl 11y agoGnome and KDE run in userspace. They are desktop environments, they don't "break userspace". I feel like you're talking about GTK and Qt, both of which (don't break userspace either) are libraries you can statically link and nothing will break.
- LoSboccacc 11y agothey both break library compatibility and break their environment (like when kde removed the widget toolbar and a whole lot of app suddenly stopped working) sure you can have bunch of ifdef in the code, and an autoconf, and make sure you support a wide set of options, but that is basically the whole point, it makes for a painful experience and costlier, slower development (for closed source application that comes prepackaged)
- lawl 11y agoI feel like you do not understand the concept of static linking, because the entire point is that you don't need a bunch of ifdefs, since you target exactly the version you develop against and ship with it.
- LoSboccacc 11y ago
- txdv 11y agoIn the end to the end user "linux sucks" because skype sucks on linux.
- noisy_boy 11y agoMaybe that is intentional in this case.
- asddubs 11y agomost of the people I know, regardless of what platform they use seem to think that skype sucks. especially if they tried to use it on their mobile phones. We all put up with it because there are no real competitors, and the open source alternatives are all pretty lacking as well