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The switch from Hangouts to Chat has been in the works since October 2019.

After that, it'll be gone forever, in yet another example of the inevitable “link rot” style loss of data that constitutes life on the internet. Access to the Hangouts Chrome extension was also revoked.Įven now, all the chat history that you might have tied up with Hangouts over the years can still be recovered, but there's a deadline for saving it as well: Google Takeout will let users download their data up until January 1st, 2023. Don’t forget to share your experience with Google Hangouts in Linux.By mid-year, users lost access to the Hangouts mobile app, and were guided to upgrade to Chat, either within Gmail or via the separate app. If you want official apps, take a look at these instant messaging applications with native Linux clients. I let you give it a try and decide whether or not it is worth to install Google Hangouts client in Linux. You’ll also get desktop notification for new messages. If you want to show profile pictures of the contacts, you can select View->Show conversation thumbnails. Once you are through, you’ll see a screen like the one below where you can chat with your Google contacts. You’ll have to enter your Google Account credentials of course. Go in to this directory and you should see a file named yakyak. Extract it and you will see a directory like linux-圆4 or linux-x32 based on your system. If you don’t want to use Snap, you can download the installation files from the link below: You can easily install it on Ubuntu 16.04 and above with the following command: sudo snap install yakyak Good thing is that YakYak is available as Snap package now. Sounds good enough? Let’s see how to install YakYak. Hangupsbot sync room aware (actual user pics).Drag-drop, copy-paste or attach-button for image upload.Create and change conversations (rename, add people).Before we see how to use it, let’s first take a look at main features of yakyak: I’ll show you how to use yakyak in Ubuntu but I believe that you can use the same method to use it in other Linux distributions. We are going to use an open source project called yakyak which is unofficial Google Hangouts client for Linux, Windows and OS X. Of course, you can use Google Hangouts in the web browser but it is more fun to use the desktop client than the web browser one. Curious? Let’s see how to install Google Hangouts desktop client in Linux and how to use it. I have one more unofficial app for today and it is Google Hangouts. Earlier, we have seen how to install Facebook Messenger in Linux and WhatsApp desktop client in Linux.