What do you use to send and receive SMS on your computer? I’ve tried KDE Connect but found it too buggy to use daily.
There are multiple ways to bridge SMS to XMPP. Works nicely in my experience.
If you are US or Canada based this is also worth a look: https://jmp.chat/
I really liked jmp but it didn’t at all handle group messages well. When it does I might go back.
What bugs are you encountering with KDE Connect?
Most of the time I can’t even send a message with it - I’ll type the message out, click send and… nothing. No indication of error, no indication of success. There’s also an issue with loading the message history right after launch. A lot of times it doesn’t work or only works partially. App on the phone has full permissions, set to unrestricted battery, etc.
Why would you want to send SMS from your computer? 🤷♂️
doing everything from your computer can be nicer than having to get out your phone and switch to another screen just to quickly respond to SMS
For sure, I use a computer all day, the only time I touch my phone is to answer the door. I don’t have access to iMessage on the PC but I only use Signal and WhatsApp for messaging anyway and they work nicely on my Linux desktop. Never need to fiddle with my phone.
MacOS does a nice job imo