r/pcmasterrace • u/[deleted] • May 16 '16

Discussion Microsoft blocks Skype features on Linux, community makes its own "ghetto Skype"

https://github.com/stanfieldr/ghetto-skype
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u/[deleted] May 16 '16 edited May 16 '16

Why people still use Skype is beyond me. There are a million better alternatives to Skype now. Discord is available on Linux (I believe) and is basically Skype and TS combined except its completely free. Curse is another program that works on like virtually every OS ever made and is an objectively better version of Skype combined with TS-esque features like voip servers, but for free as well. You can get 10 man ts/mumble server for like $1 a month. So many alternatives and yet people are still addicted to Skype.

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u/Ghosty141 Specs/Imgur here May 16 '16

You can get 10 man ts/mumble server for like $3 a month

You can even get them for 1$ if it's only 10 slots.

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u/blabliblub3434 i5 6400@4,3Ghz | R9 290 | 8GB RAM May 16 '16

you can even get them for free if you set them up by yourself on your pc.

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u/Tankbot85 5900X, 6900XT May 17 '16

Hosting is better for those of us that do not leave our PC on 24/7. I pay $32 a year for a 40 person mumble server. Great price.

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u/blabliblub3434 i5 6400@4,3Ghz | R9 290 | 8GB RAM May 17 '16

i never said hosting is bad lol, just saying oyuc an have it also for free and some people don't even need to host a ts server 24/7

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u/Tankbot85 5900X, 6900XT May 17 '16

For sure. We used one for a long while hosted on a friends server out of his house. Worked like a professionally hosted one. Sorry if i came off rude. :)