Dear All,
Recently, the linux rpm distribution of skype has been discontinued:
https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?332743-Updates-hang-on-skype&a...
Is there some alternative to using snap or web-skype
https://snapcraft.io/install/skype/fedora
?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
On Tue, 2024-06-04 at 11:21 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
Recently, the linux rpm distribution of skype has been discontinued:
https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?332743-Updates-hang-on-skype&a...
Is there some alternative to using snap or web-skype
Oh wow, efficient packaging tailored to work properly in your OS is being abandoned for a huge 2GB blob (referring to one of Paul's links) that will probably have problems with every distro (*).
* My experience with allegedly universal blobs is negative, you find things like you cannot print from the application. You have to save a PDF, then open it in a PDF viewer and print from there. Tedious backwards crappory.
Hi
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Tim via users wrote:
On Tue, 2024-06-04 at 11:21 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
Recently, the linux rpm distribution of skype has been discontinued:
https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?332743-Updates-hang-on-skype&a...
Is there some alternative to using snap or web-skype
Oh wow, efficient packaging tailored to work properly in your OS is being abandoned for a huge 2GB blob (referring to one of Paul's links) that will probably have problems with every distro (*).
- My experience with allegedly universal blobs is negative, you find
things like you cannot print from the application. You have to save a PDF, then open it in a PDF viewer and print from there. Tedious backwards crappory.
I agree in principle, especially for the waste of space and the duplication of libraries but I'm using it and other application via snap without big issues.
The only one, that I'm struggling to solve is the font of the buttons of file listener that look as missing in any application from microsoft/meta (e.g., teams, skype and whatsapp)
My 2¢ Walter --
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 6:02 PM Walter Cazzola cazzola@di.unimi.it wrote:
Recently, the linux rpm distribution of skype has been discontinued:
https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?332743-Updates-hang-on-skype&a...
Is there some alternative to using snap or web-skype
Oh wow, efficient packaging tailored to work properly in your OS is being abandoned for a huge 2GB blob (referring to one of Paul's links) that will probably have problems with every distro (*).
- My experience with allegedly universal blobs is negative, you find
things like you cannot print from the application. You have to save a PDF, then open it in a PDF viewer and print from there. Tedious backwards crappory.
I agree in principle, especially for the waste of space and the duplication of libraries but I'm using it and other application via snap without big issues.
The only one, that I'm struggling to solve is the font of the buttons of file listener that look as missing in any application from microsoft/meta (e.g., teams, skype and whatsapp)
Thanks for all the replies.
Currently, I am using web-skype, which works reasonably well, but it turns off the camera when one shares the screen -- that is very annoying.
Paul
It seems there's a flatpak:
flatpak search skype Name Description Application ID Version Branch Remotes Skype Call and message skype users, with video chat support com.skype.Client 8.119.0.201 stable flathub
On 6/4/24 5:21 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All,
Recently, the linux rpm distribution of skype has been discontinued:
https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?332743-Updates-hang-on-skype&a...
Is there some alternative to using snap or web-skype
https://snapcraft.io/install/skype/fedora
?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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