Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

["Yuri K. Shatroff" <yks-uno@yandex.ru>]

On 23.08.2013 13:42, the wrote:
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> On 08/23/13 13:21, Stroller wrote:
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>> On 22 August 2013, at 17:08, hasufell wrote:
>>> … I was arguing from both sides. It is buggy, crashes a lot,
>>> consumes a lot of ressources and is able to slow down your whole
>>> desktop, mess with audio settings and whatnot.
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>> My granny never had these problems, using Skype on her PC.
> I can assure you that skype consumes tremendous amount of ram.

Not defending Skype in any way, but tremendous is not calculable.
In these words, e.g. KDE consumes even more tremendous amounts. So what, 
stop using KDE now?
As to bugs, don't think Skype has more bugs than KDE. Crashes, slowdowns 
and UI troubles - KDE is plentiful with them. Stop using KDE now?
And it would be interesting to see a program (somewhat more complex than 
printf('%s', 'Hello world'); ) which does not suffer from all these issues.
The main criterion of quality of software is whether it suits users' 
needs. All that "technical" stuff is about talking. The user never sees 
the code, rarely sees the resource utilization, and what he observes 
most of the time is the result of using the software. If the user 
manages to achieve his goal, the software is successful. If not, the 
quality of code and UI and resource consumption matter nothing.
The advanced user will probably aim at minimizing RAM usage, improving 
UI, opening the source code etc. but after all software quality is only 
the users' perceived matching of expectations with results.


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Best wishes,
Yuri K. Shatroff