As of the first of July 2017 Skype 4.3 will not working anymore, but there are a great looking new version of Skype available for us, Linux users. So everything seems to be ok. Yes? Well not if you have a 32 bit system. As the new Skype is only available for 64 bit systems. Which is very sad. But Skype is not the first one who pulled the plug on 32 bit systems. Google Chrome did the same last year when they stopped supporting 32 bit Ubuntu systems. And based on the fact that the new Skype is simple a webpage, placed in the form of an app, we might assume that the Skype client is in a way dependent on Chrome.
So. Based on all this info Skype for 32 systems seems to be dead, but Skype also made a web app. web.skype.com which is basically identical to the new Skype version and 32 bit systems can use the web app! But the web app on Firefox does not support voice calling and video calling, just texting.
But Chromium which is the developer version of Chrome are still being supported on 32 bit Linux systems and video and voice calling works fine on Chromium.
So for 32 bit users you simply have to install Chromium, go to web.skype.com and you will have the same experience than 64 bit users!
For video instructions please look at the video attached. Thank you so much for your time and I hope you found it useful!
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