google voice/video vs skype

[Kevin Fries]

Haven't you heard?  Microsoft has blessed CentOS... ha ha ha

Seriously, the days of Microsoft trying to kill off Linux by killing Linux
versions of programs is pretty much over.  It hasn't worked, and only cost
them money from products dieing the death of a proprietary purgatory. Even
Microsoft's VM product formally accepts CentOS as a "officially supported
operating system"

But that being said, G+'s video chat client is far superior.  At my work,
we have completely abandoned Skype for GTalk.  One of the key reasons why
is that we use Windows, Linux, and Mac machines routinely in out
operations.  Our largest client is a very Mac friendly company, so cross
platform is crucial to us.  Even with all Windows clients, we could not get
Skype to handle more than 3-4 video clients reliably.  Some days it
would... other days junk.  But G+ has been great!  Linux and Mac clients
are not second class citizens, and we often have 6-8 remote participants
rarely with even the slightest glitch.

So, from our own experience... I would highly recommend G+ video chat over
Skype.

Kevin
On Oct 30, 2012 3:56 PM, "Matt Graham" <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:

> From: Daniel Stasinski
> > Michael Havens wrote:
> >> From the articles I've read it seems skype is better. But which
> >> uses more resources? Is skype really better?
> > I can't recall the exact numbers but in my own usage, Google Voice
> > video used significantly less bandwidth than Skype video.  Less
> > than half.  I have no idea about system resource usage though.
>
> Since Microsoft bought Skype, I've been thinking that they'll eventually
> abandon the Linux Skype client, and it will stop working.  So I'll probably
> *have* to use google video or another video-chat client, not skype, at some
> point in the future.  I usually video chat with people pretty infrequently,
> only about 3 or 4 times per year though.
>
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