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On 07/03/17 01:21, mr meowski wrote:
I should have said, I only ever user the consumer Skype as I have no need of the Business one if that's where the issues lie.On 06/03/17 23:20, Julian Hall 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. Kind regards, JulianBy way of explanation: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/skype-for-linux-end-of-life-march In short, the old 4.x Skype on Linux apps were a very, very poor effort (did video calls ever work?) and Microsoft have been hard at work completely re-architecting the Skype infrastructure (basically moving from peer to peer to cloud based). The "old" Skype clients for other platforms have been pretty much all killed off now, the only reason why the old Linux one is still working - for now - is because MS don't even really care enough about it to bother disabling it. They will shortly though, and then Mint will presumably move to packaging up the "new" Skype for Linux (which is for all intents and purposes a wrapper around the crappy webclient). For now this remains pretty strongly on my "things I don't care about" list but I'll have to pay at least some attention I guess. As in Ian's reply, the ability to join conference/group chats is the killer feature that's still missing (outside of the bog standard 'video-call your mate in a country that is expensive to actually phone' functionality, which does actually work. Mostly). Cheers
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