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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Where are people going / planning on going before the
wheels fully come off Skype? (Stuart Ward)


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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:26:05 +0100
From: Stuart Ward <stuart.ward@bcs.org>
To: debian@invux.com, Bristol and Bath Linux User Group
<bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Where are people going / planning on going
before the wheels fully come off Skype?
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there seems to be a workable Linux client for whatsapp

https://github.com/Aluxian/WhatsApp-Desktop

Stuart
-- Stuart Ward M +44 7782325143


On 11 April 2016 at 09:27, Steve King <debian@invux.com> wrote:
>> Dear collected wisdom,
>>
>> I have to use Skype for a number of work related things. The quality of
>> calls and reliability of the service has been dropping over the past
>> couple of years and it's now getting to the unusable stage often enough
>> to persuade people to move on-mass to something new. Microsoft's
>> (unsurprising) lack of interest in the Linux client doesn't help either.
>> Anyway, I figure other people here may have had similar experiences, so
>> where do we suggest people go?
>>
>> Requirements:
>>
>> *. Actually fucking works. Reliably. And when it doesn't there is at
>> least some kind of diagnostics on why not.
>>
>> *. Open protocol and Free Software clients for at least Linux. Clients
>> that don't suck massively for Windows, Mac, maybe the obvious phones.
>>
>> *. Two person and multi-party text and voice. Video ... does anyone
>> actually use it, productively, for anything other than porn?
>>
>> *. Secure against external attackers and hostile (or at least greedy and
>> self-interested) server providers.
>>
>> *. Don't have to sign-up for everything + dog just to use.
>>
>> I mean, it's 2016, is this really too much to ask?
>>
>> Once this gets out of beta:
>>
>> https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal-desktop/
>>
>> then I suspect it is the right answer but ... are there any others? I'm
>> aware of:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software
>>
>> but I'm more interested in people's experience / views as that one
>> cannot reliably find by searching the net.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Martin
>>
>>
>>
> I have never used this, but it seems to me that they are trying to do it
> the right way:
>
> https://tox.chat/
>
> I think your main problem will be that it is not very mature yet.
> --
> Steve
>
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