I'm sure it has a lot to do with how I use skype (strictly as a text-chat client...not my decision), but I actually really like the linux client. It's stripped down and doesn't have all that fluff the Windows client has. Plus, no ads.

I do. Sometimes I use the Windows client in a VM for the features the Linux one doesn't have. The UI is horrible, much worse than the minimalistic one in Linux and the content to screen area ratio is very low. You have to keep scrolling to get back to past messages in a chat, and this is not the average 768p cheap notebook screen.