IIRC there's some animosity due to the fact that windows builds for xchat aren't (or weren't, I'm not exactly up to date on this) available for free. In any ca

IIRC there's some animosity due to the fact that windows builds for xchat aren't (or weren't, I'm not exactly up to date on this) available for free. In any case hexchat is available as package for debian as well, so I don't much see the problem.