With Skype’s impending death, I need to use an application that works on Linux and Mac. One list shows Jitsi and Jami. Does anyone have any experience to compare the two? Or perhaps there is something else. Ease of installing on Mac is important as my contacts are naive Mac users.
Thanks in advance.
If you were using Skype you weren’t concerned with privacy. You might consider Zoom.
Jitsi with their public server is a good option, and easy to install (you don’t need an app, you can just use your browser).
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Here in NL Signal is growing quickly at the cost of Whatsapp and Skype
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Same in Sweden. Here at our company we have been using Signal for several years now and for about 2 years we have had it for our video meetings.
I’ve used both, and liked both. Jitsi is similar to Zoom, and useful for video meetings where not everyone wants to install a new app or create an account. Jami is more like a p2p SIP client, although I guess you can also use it for video calls too? It uses a lot of phone battery. There’s so many options for video calls these days, though. Nearly any messenger can do it.
voice and video is available in Session
should be a link to calls in FAQ
Not PFS but neither is Skype. If you trust communist china try zoom. Jitsi is another good option.
I am enamored with Threema on my phones. There’s a desktop option:
How do you install Signal?
Their actual only official is deb/ubuntu based! Do you use an unofficial repo or is there a flatpak?
I run it as a Flatpak, it does require a phone install, but works fine
Okay. For your info: this Signal package is not the official one, but it is community packaged.
The official package is sadly only provided for Debian based systems:
# NOTE: These instructions only work for 64-bit Debian-based
# Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Mint etc.
(source)
Maybe you mean this one?
No, I mean the flatpak!
https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/1bkxmf1/please_offer_signal_as_a_flatpak/
(This post confirms my saying)
The only official Signal package is in their official repository (there, Signal is only provided for debian based distributions). Their application is not packaged for any other types of systems nor do they support any other packaging forms such as flatpaks or snaps.
On their GitHub the only officially installation link takes you to their webpage (which I already linked to in my last post) .
Let’s please not see Reddit as a source of proven knowledge.
I am not.
I just wish to help you and inform you, that as far as I know, and as far as I am interpreting the information on Signal’s own webpage(s), Signal’s only official package is in their own repository and it is Debian based. Everything else you find online is unofficial, so you install these versions at your own risk. I personally do not install Signal because no official install is available and have been waiting for a while now.
Sadly I have not the competence to package this myself, else I would have absolutely done this since a long time and shared the package with the community.
I would be really happy if I am wrong on this. I could use Signal-Desktop again.
A quick look on their Github confirms:
There is no other official packaging.
Running the flatpak (org.signal.Signal) here, works fine. But let’s keep this on-topic
I do not see how this is off topic, since not only you but also @aggplanta seem to use it (in a corporate environment even) and others, might use it too. I think, that it is quite useful, to be aware of the fact, that the Signal version one is using might not be the official one, especially in a corporate environment where encryption and privacy might be of importance (and would possibly be in peril through third party packaging).
My excuses, if this is a bad thing to do. These posts could have been summarized into 1-2 posts (I had to explain myself because there was a misunderstanding of my first post, I am sorry, english is not my native language). You are blaming me and saying that I am spreading false information by posting reddit links, while I clearly, am not.
Again, sorry if what I am doing is wrong or if here is not the right place, but how else am I supposed to make users aware of this fact?
On another note, Jitsi is really useful and works well, I can really encourage everyone to try it out.
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The topic is clear. And not a discussion about Signal packaging. FWIW openSUSE uses jitsi for their bar and community meetings.
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