Skype for Linux was OK for years. It worked reasonably well till recently on my old laptop. Recently (may be a few months ago), MS upgraded Skype to make it "b

Skype for Linux was OK for years. It worked reasonably well till recently on my old laptop. Recently (may be a few months ago), MS upgraded Skype to make it "better". I must upgrade Skype since old client stopped working as they break backward compatibility. After upgrade, new Skype started using a lot of CPU, memory and disk IO. To the point that I can't work in browser while running Skype. If you launch Skype, it started very slowly. Since I still have HDD, I can hear scream of my HDD during heavy Skype launch. New Skype is so bloated and slow that, I had to remove it because I didn't want to torture myself and my poor old laptop. You may say that I have to upgrade hardware but I find this argument quite annoying because Skype is just a messenger and video/voice call app. This functionality worked perfectly well for years and now just because of Skype developers, I have to upgrade my hardware in order to use the same app with the same functionality. In the bigger picture, I see that modern apps have a tendency to be fat and bloated. And it looks like many developers are totally OK with that. I would recommend Skype developers read this: https://suckless.org/philosophy https://suckless.org/philosophy