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I run mIRC on Wine. I know, I know, there are plenty of Linux native IRC clients. In fact, mIRC has been quite stagnant lately. But to me, its UI is still unsu
by Al-Khwarizmi 7y ago
I run mIRC on Wine.
I know, I know, there are plenty of Linux native IRC clients. In fact, mIRC has been quite stagnant lately. But to me, its UI is still unsurpassed (20 years of muscle memory also help), and it has less latency than alternatives (even with Wine).
- tambourine_man 7y agoI would never ever have guessed such use case. Another proof that you never know how people will use your software. Reminds me of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/
- Newtonip 7y agoI've been doing the same thing forever. mIRC is the first client I ever used and I tried other ones (XChat, BitchX since running irc in a terminal sounded appealing, Konversation) and they just felt wrong so I stuck with mIRC. It's been running perfectly in WINE since the late '90s.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoI'm surprised that nobody's made an open source clone, since it's a long-standing app, apparently better than the available alternatives, and fundamentally IRC just isn't that hard.
- Shorel 7y agoThey would do an Electron application.