I had configuration files corrupted during the upgrade process due to a bug in dnf, I had programmes not running on Wayland, but running in xorg, I've been dealing with tearing due to a different refresh rate of the monitor and GPU, I had my computer failing to boot due to bbswitch waiting for the GPU to announce its state without ever getting a response, I had several issues with NVIDIA drivers including the official ones, negativo's modded ones, nouveau, implementations like bumblebee and optimus never really worked, and many many others issues. Unfortunately, because Fedora receives constant updates and it's a sort of "preview/unofficial beta" of RHEL, things can break. I've been using Arch Linux since 2005 as dual boot on my desktop, but when I purchased my new laptop in 2016 I had to install Fedora 'cause it needed the very latest kernel and drivers to work. I'm using Fedora on my laptop 'cause it came with Windows 10 out of the box, I gave it a shot and I didn't like it. For the most part you should get the basics out of been using Linux for years and I can say that some things just don't work. Some software will NOT run if you're not using the latest distro. For the most part you should get the basics out of it. Skype 8 started using the web version.And Microsoft is trying to make an end to the msnp protocol. Similarly, Skype 10 will require W10 and won't run on W8.1, and all M$'s version numbers will finally be in sync. I'm sure in a year or two, after W7 support ends, M$ will change the Skype protocol yet again and announce EOS for Skype 8 - and of course Skype 9 won't run on W7. I'll switch to W7, or even W8.1 and its dreaded Metro interface, if I have to - but the day I have to upgrade to W10 will be the day I move to Linux.) (I suspect they'll be waiting a while for that from most of us. Just a little more pressure on us XP diehards to fork more $ over to them to upgrade to W10. And of course it's not surprising that after a major protocol change requiring updated clients, M$ isn't going to back-port the updated Skype client to OSes like XP they don't support any more. It's not surprising that Micro$oft used their purchase of Skype to "proprietize" it so that only they could release working Skype clients. In other words, you won't find a backported version of Skype easily anytime soon (definitely not by me). (I've been over this years ago in 2014 'cause I was using Trillian instead of the official Skype and Trillian was indeed based on the Skypekit). With a few mods I managed to get it working, but only for normal-chats, then Microsoft changed the protocol again and moved everything to the cloud (messages are now stored on MS servers on the cloud), therefore the old modded Skypekit didn't work at all. Unfortunately, this played against us, 'cause I tried to use the old Skypekit I had saved, but it refuses the connection. Killing the Skypekit meant that the only official working client would have been the official Skype app and programme, which basically meant more cash thanks to the ads for them. In other words, you won't find a backported version of Skype easily anytime soon (definitely not by reason why there aren't alternative clients to Skype (or backported ones) is that Skype doesn't use the Skypekit anymore, as they removed the support to Skypekit in 2013/2014 (if I recall correctly). "glitches" (but I can live with reason why there aren't alternative clients to Skype (or backported ones) is that Skype doesn't use the Skypekit anymore, as they removed the support to Skypekit in 2013/2014 (if I recall correctly). Yep, I switched to the Web version long time ago, but it doesn't support calls on XP (I use my phone whenever I have to call someone).įor the records, I tried the new version of Skype web on Chromium 54 and it works on XP, even though the new UI has a few. It might not be the answer you wanted, but it works. You can use with Firefox or Chrome on Windows XP.
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