Webcams don’t seem to work, and Skype is only on version 1.
The result? Back to Windows I go.
My girlfriend lives in Gothenburg, and I live in London. Our primary means of communication is Skype 2.x plus Logitech webcams.
Using this setup we speak to each other at least 30 minutes every day, sometimes more, and we go to see each other too. It’s a very important thing for us, being able to stay in touch so much and with visual as well as audio… long distance relationships are really tough anyway, so anything that can help I’ll use.
Anyhow, couldn’t find any successful drivers that would work in Ubuntu for the Logitech Quick Sphere webcam that I have. And further investigation into Skype on Ubuntu (ignoring the fact that it never worked with AMD64) reveals that it’s just the old version, minus webcam support. So… if I could get the webcam to work, I still wouldn’t have had Skype working with it. I’ve tried Skype 2 on Crossover and Wine, but neither were successful.
Ah well, good thing I didn’t wipe Windows 
A quick change to grub is all that’s needed to be back in the Windows world, hoping that this time I don’t see blue screens. And maybe, just maybe, the next time I give Ubuntu a whirl, the webcam + Skype thing will be sorted. Until then, I’m going to stick with what works.
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