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Skype For Linux: Dead? Or Just Resting?
New submitter somebearouthere writes: Skype for Linux was updated in 2014 to v4.3 and has since sat there without an update while its counterpart on other platforms has been receiving updates. Sometime in 2015, Microsoft quietly abandoned that version of the product, showing back to Linux users who had paid for subscriptions with the expectation that one day they too would be able to finally use group video chat, have a real 64-bit version available and get an improved UI. Skype developers have just thrown in the towel and it has left the user base frustrated. Last month many users reported that Microsoft had broken the app's ability to join calls. Two Linux enthusiasts penned the issue in a blog signed by "lots of angry Linux users." I have contacted Microsoft numerous times over the past few weeks but it remains tight-lipped on the matter. I have a feeling Microsoft isn't going to update Skype for Linux.
It's just pining for the fjords
With GNU/Windows installed, Windows 10 is now going to be a better Linux than Linux, so I'll be switching. The headaches of dealing with Linux crappiness like the lack of a working Skype or iTunes are just too much.
You must be great fun at parties.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Getting laid helps propagate the species; being a tinfoil-hat-wearing shut-in does not. One of those choices leads to the continuation of the species; the other does not. Care to guess which is which?
That's just the heterosexuals, trampling all over the reproductive rights of everyone else. I blame them for only allowing the species to propagate by them getting laid.
Where's the "-1 Autism" option?