Thinking of switching to Linux

[Patton]

Aaand I'm currently on a laptop with a Linux Mint in it!! However, I've got a problem - skype aint working. When I type in my credentials it says "Skype cannot connect" and that's all. It worked on my desktop PC when I had Mint :S

Skype 4.2 stopped working today, it needs to be updated to 4.3.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/488053/how-to-install-skype-4-3

[Huntsman]

Skype 4.2 stopped working today, it needs to be updated to 4.3.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/488053/how-to-install-skype-4-3

Wonderful thanks

[Patton]

Wonderful thanks

Banged my head on the wall about this, apparently Microsoft doesn't take into account that some distributions (like Debian) take longer to include newer versions of applications into their repositories. They also don't take into account that people are using 64-bit computers.

[Huntsman]

Banged my head on the wall about this, apparently Microsoft doesn't take into account that some distributions (like Debian) take longer to include newer versions of applications into their repositories. They also don't take into account that people are using 64-bit computers.

Well I sucessfully installed Skype 4.3 but the thing is that it still looks fucking ancient regardless if anything was changed. Seriously wtf's with that look

[Patton]

Well I sucessfully installed Skype 4.3 but the thing is that it still looks f**king ancient regardless if anything was changed. Seriously wtf's with that look

They're using the Qt GUI toolkit which looks odd in the GNOME-based environment that you're running, that's all.

[Huntsman]

They're using the Qt GUI toolkit which looks odd in the GNOME-based environment that you're running, that's all.

I'm on Mint. Why wouldn't they just make it look more like Windows version? you can't even instantly skype video call on this one, you can only call the person and then turn on your camera.

[eymas]

I'm on Mint. Why wouldn't they just make it look more like Windows version? you can't even instantly skype video call on this one, you can only call the person and then turn on your camera.

I'm glad it works at least.

[Teddy]

I'm on Mint. Why wouldn't they just make it look more like Windows version? you can't even instantly skype video call on this one, you can only call the person and then turn on your camera.

Because it's not windows?

[Patton]

just make it look more like Windows version?

Because it's a completely different OS with completely different guidelines and toolkits for building GUI applications.

I find it great that it still works and that they continue to provide updates for it every now and then, which is amazing given the amount of will these large companies have to support Linux (Adobe for example removed support for Air and Flash years ago, and recently even Acrobat Reader). That it looks odd can only be contributed to their choice of libraries, which is Qt over GTK.