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Zash on Feb 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client

Skype hasn't been a pain on Linux since the Microsoft takeover. It was a huge pain long before.

XMPP with http://swift.im/ and http://conversations.im/ is much more pleasant.

smcleod on Feb 24, 2016 [–]

Swift.im looks interesting, thanks for the link. At work most of us use Adium with our XMPP servers, those stuck on Windows have to use pidgin at present which is truly awful so I'll take a look at this for them.

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