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The product does not seem to have ever changed. It's clunkier than ever too. You can find me on Duo.



On Linux you have the choice between "never changed, clunkier than ever" and "OMG, this is completely different" (https://blogs.skype.com/2016/07/13/skype-for-linux-alpha-and...)


The "new" Linux interface is roughly comparable to what Windows/Mac users have had for a while now.


It still can't sync message status across devices. Now and then I get re-ordered messages. Some messages repeatedly keep showing up as unread. It's quite bad at the messaging side.

The dumb UI I sorta excused as being, well, made by a small team not a big US retail company. The fact MSFT didn't overhaul it all is really annoying.


From my brief experience running Skype on multiple devices; if you can get both of them online at the same time for a while, it'll sync up eventually. If it's always one or the other, good luck (there's a reason I stopped running it on two devices)


I have my phone running right next to my laptop. It still doesn't handle things right (Signal does). If one is offline for a bit then sometimes it syncs, sometimes it leaves unread indicators.




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