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IRC clients - Acko - June 11th, 2013
I use chatzilla, personally. However, I have been looking for a good independent IRC client for a while. I know mIRC exists, but it has a time bomb. So any suggestions?
Re: IRC clients - Darth-Apple - June 11th, 2013
Hexchat is really nice, and unlike xchat, it's free which is nice. That's what I use.
Re: IRC clients - Gmdykfuiygh66476 - June 11th, 2013
I'm using xchat. It's free
Re: IRC clients - Darth-Apple - June 11th, 2013
It was free for only 30 days for me, and then forced me to register. Not sure if I missed something or not when I installed it, but that was pretty annoying.ÂÂ
Re: IRC clients - Acko - June 11th, 2013
per Blake's tip, I've went with HexChat. Though it's real... white and I can't stand looking at it sometimes. Are there any themes available?
Re: IRC clients - Darth-Apple - June 11th, 2013
I'm not actually sure. There may be some themes available, but I haven't seen any yet.
Re: IRC clients - Acko - June 11th, 2013
Well, I guess there are now. (really should have just googled that myself lol)
Re: IRC clients - Darth-Apple - June 11th, 2013
Ah nice. I'll have to try some of them out myself.
Re: IRC clients - Towncrafter - June 11th, 2013
I use the built-in irc client in the opera browser. I've tried chatzilla, and i tried mirc a long time ago, but i didn't like those two.
Re: IRC clients - Darth-Apple - June 11th, 2013
Oh opera has a built in client? I'll have to check it out. I thought it was a plugin, so that's pretty neat.
Re: IRC clients - Acko - June 11th, 2013
And now, I temporarily use cIRC for chrome.
Re: IRC clients - Darth-Apple - June 11th, 2013
cIRC? Haven't heard of that one. I'll have to check it out.
Re: IRC clients - Acko - June 11th, 2013
Yeah, it's kind of minimal though. ChatZilla is a plugin for firefox, and is more complex than that.
RE: IRC clients - SpookyZalost - May 30th, 2017
I actually use hexchat, it comes with the linux distro I use... but i know it's also possible to telnet into an IRC and use a command line, if you are inclined to do that.
RE: IRC clients - SpookyZalost - February 22nd, 2019
so reviving this, does anybody still use IRC?
I use it occasionally when I'm stumped with linux and the usual forums come up short but I know there's still tons of active IRC channels.
RE: IRC clients - Thomas - February 22nd, 2019
I do! Daily. Hexchat is my go to. I'm on freenode and some torrent tracker networks.
RE: IRC clients - SpookyZalost - February 22nd, 2019
awesome! yeah I love using hexchat on my various nixboxes
Freenode for the win man!