Gnubie Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 What is (in your opinion) the best IRC client for Linux? I know of Xchat and Chatzilla, but that's it. Can someone give a comparison? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Its all a matter of personal taste on this one so the responses should be interesting. On that note here's my 2 cents. For an X client X-Chat seems to be the best. For the real irc experience text clients are the way to go. Irssi is my personal favorite of these, followed by scrollz then bitchx. It's probibly best if you just install several of them and try them out. Once you decide on one that you like unistall the rest and you're off to the races. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Gaim can also do IRC. In mdk 9.2 and mdk cooker, I cannot get XChat to beep on my name (it worked right when I had knoppix/debian installed, so I know I have the settings right) and that is pretty important to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sushubh Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Opera just added an IRC client in the latest preview. simple and it works. I recommend it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 ooo....and opera irc? hmmm...cool! I use xchat and irssi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 irssi, small fast, reliable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted January 29, 2004 Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 xchat gets my vote, but then I don't IM and don't pay attention in most channels - follow Ronins advice, suck it and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 I have to go another way. I vote ksirc. It's a kde app, so if you're using gnome ymmv. I find that it is the easiest and most straight forward option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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