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Am 23.08.2013 12:50, schrieb the: |
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> Does that mean that I should buy hardware to match software requirements? |
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Do you really want to tell me that you are still working on a Pentium |
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133 with maybe 64 MB of RAM? |
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I mean it has always been like that: people buy indeed hardware to match |
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software requirements, e.g. to play better games or to watch Youtube |
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videos in High Definition. |
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Of course no one is going to force you to do so, so if you are happy |
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with less power you need less, of course. |
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The point for Skype, last time I am going to repeat that, is that it |
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works out of the box for the normal user and the large user base. You |
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need no bachelor in computer sciences to set it up and get it running, |
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even your proverbial grandma in mind is able to do that. |
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And that's what 99% of Skype frankly care about at all: that it works |
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that way. They don't really care about nerdy themes like bugs, privacy |
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concerns, backdoors, whatever - it works for them good enough, cheap and |
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reliable and that's what's counts at all. |
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So if you really want a piece of software to replace Skype, it depends |
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on your goals: just for talking over the internet you can take a |
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VoIP-program like Ekiga and so on. But if you want to replace Skype with |
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something better, you first need to recognize why it got so popular in |
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first place and make something even better for its user base. Or - |
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another way - just buy the company behind it. |
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And in modern times like ours I personally and frankly think that |
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telling "OMFG Skype uses so much RAM" is not really something most |
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people care about anymore at all. I mean, even really cheap computers |
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you can buy today, have at last around 4 GB of RAM, being a multitude of |
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RAM being necessary to run Skype smoothly. |
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And because most Gentoo users are being used to compile their own stuff |
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(until they use Sabayon), their computers are normally being far from |
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underpowered. |
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Of course, if you do care about it - don't use it, it is that simple. |
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But don't expect the rest of it to share your point of view and do it |
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likewise. |
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For normal users it is like: all software sucks and they tend to use |
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that piece of software which sucks less for them. If their favorite |
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piece of software starts to suck more, then they are going to another |
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piece of software, but not before. |
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