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Well, I’ve been playing around with IRC clients. Having systems that run Windows, MacOSX, and versions of Linux, has ment that… well I really get to play around wtih alot of clients, if I wish to use IRC on all my machines, and sofar its been something different on each platform, up-untill recently, I used the never-dying mIRC for Windows, Colloquy for MacOSX, and Konversation for Linux.

Personaly, my favorite out of all of those, in order from most to least, is Colloquy, Konversation, then mIRC, and yes, I did come to the conclusion of mIRC for Windows after trialing a bunch of other clients. HydraIRC, XChat, NetTalk, to name but a few. But mIRC kept comming out the best.

So yeh, each platform, I kept using a different client. KDE isn’t stable enough on Windows yet for me to be happy using Konversation, Colloquy just doesn’t work on anything else, and whilst I’d like to have the same program over all three, it just didn’t seem…. propper. The ones that can be used on all systems, just feel… lacking.

I had heard Dazz and Ycros yabbering on about IRSSI for a while, and had been reluctant to try it, since it is a terminal based IRC client, I didn’t think it would have the features that I like to have in an IRC client.

So after SirSquid decided to make a jump to it, for University-getting-around-stupid-policies purposes, I decided to give it a go.

Its good. Really good. Its already replaced mIRC on Windows, and Konversation on Linux. It wont replace Colloquy for me on Mac, but know I can keep everything the same is comforting

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