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Re: Picture Guide to IRC
« Reply #15 on: October 20, 2012, 11:19:28 pm »
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Re: Picture Guide to IRC
« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2012, 06:18:19 am »
I seriously wonder why the windows IRC clients (not multi-things like trillian) really look (visually) bad and "old".
Seriously, the only one being a bit better is KvIRC but it's still not reaching half of what linkinus (thanks for that, I didnt know it) and Colloquy (the one I use on my mac, even though I'm more on my school pc laptop nowadays, with Mibbit) look like...
It seems to be the same case for Linux but on this platform I wouldn't say interfaces are of greater importance (compared to windows)
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Re: Picture Guide to IRC
« Reply #17 on: October 21, 2012, 10:59:52 am »
I think it's because IRC is mostly popular among older Internet users and those who participate in retro gaming or derivatives (such as calcs, which supports retro-like games). As a result, fancy interfaces aren't necessarily seen as necessary. IRC dates back in 1989, after all. :P

Also Windows in general takes far more resources than Linux, so that's another reason why one would choose a simpler interface over a bloated one.
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Re: Picture Guide to IRC
« Reply #18 on: October 21, 2012, 12:41:23 pm »
Yeah, I have to agree the old style thing isn't necesarily a bad thing but at least there should be a choice :P
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Re: Picture Guide to IRC
« Reply #19 on: October 21, 2012, 02:23:33 pm »
I personally prefer that a nearly text-only application doesn't take 500 MB of RAM, though. :P In such case I would rather just open a chatroom in Starcraft II and chat while playing. :P
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