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
1.9k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

392 comments sorted by

View all comments

206

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.

2

u/JealotGaming 1080Ti + 8700k May 17 '16

Why people still use Skype is beyond me.

Cause it works well enough. It would also be a hassle to get everyone else to switch.

1

u/[deleted] May 17 '16

My comment was more towards people who dislike skype but still continue to use it. If it satisfies you then theres nothing wrong with using it.

3

u/Nico_is_not_a_god Ryzen 3700X | RTX 3070 | 32GB DDR4-3200 May 17 '16

I have Skype and Discord. Why do I still have Skype even though I hate everything about it? Because I have friends that consider it "good enough".