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On 06/03/17 22:58, mr meowski via list wrote:
I use the bog standard Linux Skype from the Mint repository and never had a problem. I didn't realise there is a problem that needed a Beta.On 06/03/17 21:51, Ian Dickinson wrote:Yep. Use it most days to join our team's remote daily stand-ups. The new beta is way better than the old Skype client, except in one crucial respect (see below). Interconnects well with the new-protocol Skype clients on Macs and Windows PCs. I'm on Ubuntu 16.10, and so far it hasn't actually crashed on me once. Occasionally we get bandwidth-related noise or video dropouts, but to be fair that happens on all VOIP clients as far as I can tell.Yes, as I understood it Skype > Skype calls working again from Linux was a major feature for this beta release.The most recent beta update added back in PSTN dialling, which wasn't present in the alpha releases. This also works well .... for connecting to a phone number. After that, I can't get it to generate DTMF tones, which makes it basically useless for "Please enter your conference code now" meet-me services. So still some way to go for feature-parity with the Mac/Win clients, but at least it's moving in the right direction. Which frankly is a relief - the old Linux client was beginning to look a lot like abandonware.And there's the dealbreaker. This was exactly the sort of thing I was asking about so thanks very much for saving me the time of having to find this out for myself!I'm no Microsoft fan, but I can't fault them for having restarted investment in what must be a pretty tiny percentage of their overall market.Meh, it's all self-interest and they're obviously figuring out how to monetize it in some (any?) and probably objectionable way... Judging by the sheer lack of progress I *am* going to fault them on this - WSL, Hyper-V extensions and Azure integration are all sure signs that Microsoft actually understands Linux pretty well and when it suits them, they can easily mobilise a small army of devs to get Stuff Done(tm). For whatever reason they apparently don't consider Skype on Linux to be worth it. In fact, it's looking increasingly like they don't consider Skype to be worth much, at least at face value - it doesn't work well on any platform currently. Anyway, thanks for the info. Cheers
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