Linux Mint is Building a New Desktop Chat App
Linux Mint is Building a New Desktop Chat App
A new IRC client (but don't call it an IRC client) is being developed by Linux Mint. The Ubuntu-based distro currently includes Hexchat in its default
To what end though? Where will this be going and what will be the use? I feel like at this point the chat program demographics are just bursting with choices and I'm not sure why you would pick this one over anything else.
9Hopefully they're just piggybacking in top of an existing protocol like Matrix.
Wouldn't make much sense to build one from the ground up and it only communicated with other LM users
11From the article it's mainly an IRC app
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It's a chat app dedicated to the Linux Mint irc channels.
It's for users and developers to discuss all things Mint in a pre-installed and configured application.
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