Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga ease of use? What am I missing?

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 29/08/13 15:27, That Guy wrote:
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> Hello, first timer here, sorry so long, any help would be greatly
> appreciated!
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> Help!  Honestly, I really need some help getting a Skype replacement
> up and running. I have tried and tried but nothing.  I am limited in
> the sense that I use *nix and my sick wife who is overseas getting
> Chemo uses M$ and is not at all technical and I'm not too much better
> and pretty much useless on a Windows "OS".  Skype just works and that
> is why a 100 million people still allow M$ to benefit from letting the
> Tyrants in the USSA Govt spy on them.  Spying on a conversation
> between a husband and a wife who had to leave the states alone to
> receive treatment for Lymphoma cant have a talk in private.  You woman
> out there, how would you feel if you had cancer and no hair,
> eye-brows, eyelashes, etc., and all alone in a very foreign land and
> you try skype and it changed so much being able to communicate and
> share files and desktops so easily, only to find out that Microsoft
> and the USSA Govt were 100% spying on your single most personal and
> intimate conversations.  I can picture some ass-hat NSA JBT Tyrant
> laughing and calling his buddies over to "take a look at the naked
> bald dying chick" who is only trying forget all the pain and
> uncertainty and insecurity about her appearance.  I am so angry but if
> I had ever been able to get any other video/voip software up and
> running reliably for us both I think much of that anger would be gone
> or changed to motivation to help make changes but right now I just
> want to see the woman I love who may not live to see 40 years old.
> Thank you
> kyle
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> PS. I'm no expert, no idiot either(I teach PGP/GPG, Bash, intro to
> *nix, & FDE to beginners) but that is what I have felt like, a total
> idiot, in my inability to get a single Open Source replacement up &
> running. What am I missing?

You are right that skype just works, and this is a big win.  Ekiga in 
some cases does not work, either because some structural limitations, or 
because of bugs.  We are trying to fix the latter ones.

If you wish help, just tell what you have tried and what does not work.

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Eugen