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No linux version. I was almost convinced that this was going to be another Electron app (after slack went that route)

by jeffjose 10y ago

alexandrerond 10y ago
Telegram forever ahead...
- dmix 10y ago
  Minus the whole end-to-end encryption thing... which is still missing in their Linux gui client.
  - giancarlostoro 10y ago
    There are alternate clients that support it on Linux. "Cutegram" http://aseman.co/en/products/cutegram/ http://aseman.co/en/products/cutegram/
  - devishard 10y ago
    And from all their other clients, if the industry assessments of their so-called encrypted protocol are to be believed.
kawera 10y ago
It is an Electron app from what I can see on OSX (Electron/React Native/Mantle/Squirrel). No voice calls though.
tim333 10y ago
I recommend Franz (http://meetfranz.com/ http://meetfranz.com/). Does Whatsapp, works on Linux, mac, pc. Supports Slack, WeChat, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Google Hangouts, GroupMe and Skype.
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- robzyb 10y ago
  Was super interested, until I realised no LINE nor KakaoChat :(
- chillacy 10y ago
  Wow that's cool. This seems to be the spiritual successor to Adium (maybe Pidgin, not sure if that's still active). Edit: Tried it out. It's visually pretty but it wouldn't even let me add my Slack account (we use SSO, maybe they haven't updated for that). And then when I clicked the Send Email to Franz, the email was prepopulated with some social "download franz!" message.
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- emdd 10y ago
  Thanks for the recommendation. This looks fantastic. If only it could do iMessage (which I know is a whole different beast).
- MaxLeiter 10y ago
  No IRC?
- jcl 10y ago
  ...which, for what it's worth, is an Electron app. :)
  - tasnent 10y ago
    Eh, I'll still take it.
- giancarlostoro 10y ago
  I really wish it supported Signal. Edit: Still pleased to use it, I don't like the Skype client for Linux.
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mwcampbell 10y ago
It is indeed an Electron app. I guess they just figured it wasn't worth the trouble to package and test it for Linux.
- wjoe 10y ago
  It takes zero effort to package Electon apps for Linux, there are plenty of tools available that will package it for all platforms with one command. And so far, I've not seen any differences or platform specific bugs. Sure, you'd expect a big company like WhatsApp to do QA testing on every platform they release for, but it's a shame that even with the barrier of entry is so negligibly low, that they still won't provide a Linux build. Even if it's just for the latest Ubuntu LTS that's fine, other distros can repackage it themselves.
dave2000 10y ago
Yeah, no use to me either, althogh I did recently upgrade my windows 7 vm to windows 10 (there's no windows 7 version either). Very odd.
albeva 10y ago
It is electron app.

No linux version. I was almost convinced that this was going to be another Electron app (after slack went that route)

alexandrerond 10y ago

Telegram forever ahead...

dmix 10y ago
Minus the whole end-to-end encryption thing... which is still missing in their Linux gui client.
- giancarlostoro 10y ago
  There are alternate clients that support it on Linux. "Cutegram" http://aseman.co/en/products/cutegram/ http://aseman.co/en/products/cutegram/
- devishard 10y ago
  And from all their other clients, if the industry assessments of their so-called encrypted protocol are to be believed.

kawera 10y ago

It is an Electron app from what I can see on OSX (Electron/React Native/Mantle/Squirrel). No voice calls though.

tim333 10y ago

I recommend Franz (http://meetfranz.com/ http://meetfranz.com/). Does Whatsapp, works on Linux, mac, pc. Supports Slack, WeChat, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Google Hangouts, GroupMe and Skype.

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robzyb 10y ago
Was super interested, until I realised no LINE nor KakaoChat :(
chillacy 10y ago
Wow that's cool. This seems to be the spiritual successor to Adium (maybe Pidgin, not sure if that's still active). Edit: Tried it out. It's visually pretty but it wouldn't even let me add my Slack account (we use SSO, maybe they haven't updated for that). And then when I clicked the Send Email to Franz, the email was prepopulated with some social "download franz!" message.
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emdd 10y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. This looks fantastic. If only it could do iMessage (which I know is a whole different beast).
MaxLeiter 10y ago
No IRC?
jcl 10y ago
...which, for what it's worth, is an Electron app. :)
- tasnent 10y ago
  Eh, I'll still take it.
giancarlostoro 10y ago
I really wish it supported Signal. Edit: Still pleased to use it, I don't like the Skype client for Linux.
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mwcampbell 10y ago

It is indeed an Electron app. I guess they just figured it wasn't worth the trouble to package and test it for Linux.

wjoe 10y ago
It takes zero effort to package Electon apps for Linux, there are plenty of tools available that will package it for all platforms with one command. And so far, I've not seen any differences or platform specific bugs. Sure, you'd expect a big company like WhatsApp to do QA testing on every platform they release for, but it's a shame that even with the barrier of entry is so negligibly low, that they still won't provide a Linux build. Even if it's just for the latest Ubuntu LTS that's fine, other distros can repackage it themselves.

dave2000 10y ago

Yeah, no use to me either, althogh I did recently upgrade my windows 7 vm to windows 10 (there's no windows 7 version either). Very odd.

albeva 10y ago

It is electron app.