Verdict: No
No, and not on Windows either. Microsoft retired Skype on 5 May 2025 and moved everyone to Microsoft Teams Free, which runs on Linux in a browser.
Skype is gone. Microsoft retired it on 5 May 2025 for free and paid users alike, so this is not a Linux problem. The same thing happened to Skype on Windows.
What Microsoft asks you to do is sign in to Microsoft Teams Free with your existing Skype username and password. Your contacts and chats come across automatically. Microsoft says some chats do not migrate, including conversations with Teams work accounts and Skype for Business chats.
On Linux there is no Teams program to install, but Teams works in Firefox or Chrome and you can pin it so it opens in its own window like an app. Video calls, chat and screen sharing all work that way.
If you had Skype Credit left, Microsoft says you can still use it for calls through the dial pad in Teams Free. New Credit is no longer sold. Old Skype data can be exported, and Microsoft has said deletion of it begins on 1 April 2026, so save anything you want to keep.
The app Microsoft moved Skype users to. On Linux you use it in a browser rather than installing it, and your Skype contacts and chats are already there after you sign in.
Your files: Chat history and contacts carry over from Skype automatically when you first sign in.
Free voice and video calls and chat, with a proper Linux app. Set up around a phone number, so the people you call need Signal too.
Good if what you used Skype for was calling family. Zoom has a real Linux app and the other person can join from a link without an account.
One stubborn program doesn't have to decide the whole question. You can keep Windows on the same PC and restart into it only when you need Skype. Everything else you do can move.
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