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Skype alternatives for Linux?

3 points by infinitebyte ↗ HN
Recently there was a HN article regarding no support for Skype Linux Clients [0]. What are the viable Skype alternatives for Linux now? The main use cases are one-to-one video chat and voip calls. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11165568

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edibleEnergy
Chrome or Firefox using Google talk or an equivalent web based service works pretty well for me.
brudgers
Because of network effects, anything called "A Skype Alternative" is a "Skype Alternative." By which I mean that it's probably no more a an alternative to Skype than Facetime because some people are not on it.
noxin
I'm currently trying out Jitsi and XMPP. It seems to work well on new clients, on some older systems there are crashes when they go to sleep, which I couldn't fix yet.
infinitebyte
I am not exactly looking for Skype alternatives. Looking for video chat solutions in general. Are there any popular video chat solutions based on WebRTC? Have tried Firefox Hello, but it was a barebones solution without features like echo-cancellation etc.

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