Personally I used to use Pidgin, but since I moved my XMPP to Gajim because of OMEMO I have no need to stay tied to it necessarily. So I’m looking to expand my horizons, and I figured here’s as good a place as any to start a discussion about Linux IRC clients.
What do y’all use? Terminal, GUI, both?
Hexchat (GUI) and weechat (CLI) are good solutions.
I use xchat. It’s simple to use and suits my needs just fine.
irssi or hexchat (earlier xchat) since forever. I’m one of the weird people that even paid for xchat on Windows ages ago.
I’ve never liked the clients that were just an extension in something else, like Pidgin.
I use Quassel, being able to host the core that I can just connect to is nice.
Only downside of Quassel is it doesnt have DCC request but meh, DCC isnt as popular now as it used to anyways
WeeChat was my go-to, years ago.
