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

[the <the.guard@mail.ru>]

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On 08/23/13 15:25, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:
> 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.
>>> 
>>> My granny never had these problems, using Skype on her PC.
>> I can assure you that skype consumes tremendous amount of ram.
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> 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?

That's what I did.

> 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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Stop talking and start compiling.
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