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Skype works perfectly fine on linux natively and has for a while.

• hga 13y ago
  Agreed ... well, mostly, I've got one of my machines with an older version that always hangs up when I try to answer a call. But that was an "upgrade", and if I'd tried to upgrade it again after noticing I'd probably be OK. But the current version for Debian wheezy works great, and I just switched my 80 year old father to Debian with Gnome Classic (he has very few windows open at a time so it's OK) and that version of Skype, and he's quite happy with the result. Heck, he might even be using Chrome instead of his familiar Firefox if Chrome's tabs paid attention to how big fonts should be. Awful oversight for those who's eyesight isn't so good.
• daveid 13y ago
  Well, it works, but not quite perfectly fine. I have two Linux machines (Fedora and Xubuntu), and both sometimes have Skype crashing when there's an incoming call. There are also random crashes and glitches when Skype is not the only application trying to play sound. I think "disaster" is quite fitting.
• makmanalp 13y ago
  Last time I used it was a year ago, and it worked, but I consistently got pixelated, muddy and laggy video compared to both the Windows and OSX versions. And it wasn't driver issues, any other GPU accelerated graphics / video decoding work fine. And the UI was different, along with missing features. The slow release cycle didn't help their case. Looks like 4.2 is out and might have fixed these, hooray! The UI sure looks nicer now.
• outworlder 13y ago
  Only if you are just interested in texting. The sound support is outdated, unmaintained (and therefore, buggy) and has been for a while now.
  • makomk 13y ago
    I've found that even text chat is so buggy in Skype for Linux as to be almost unusable.