Comment by antman | Hacker News Reader

Comment by antman | Hacker News Reader

  However, the app lacks advanced features 
  like screen sharing and API access. 
  It also excludes advanced video and audio 
  controls that you can access on 
  Windows or Mac OS platforms.

Also the beta version does not work reliably or does not work at all. Repeated failures to connect, no messages whatsoever. The older version just works. Maybe if they put to good use that big data infrastructure and analyze the logs that will become apparent. My use case is Ubuntu systems connecting to various remote OSs.

I have been using the new Skype For Linux app since their first alpha release and never experienced any of those problems. It lacks features but was never unstable for me.

Same here, until the recent weeks. Suddenly it started having issues where messages don't show up until I restart the client, while they show up fine on my mobile.

It's certainly a business move to make Linux experience worse, I doubt MS can't put some dedicated engineers and have a proper app.

Considering the Android app was just updated and it looks terrible, I don't think there's a conspiracy theory against Linux.

I can see screens shared by others but I can't share my one. But I was using Teamviewer with my customers because it had a much better video quality.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com