linux mint comes with a program coincidentally called Hexchat for connecting to IRC networks. Are these obsolete at this point, or are there still places to hang out with people so i dont have to use discord?
linux mint comes with a program coincidentally called Hexchat for connecting to IRC networks. Are these obsolete at this point, or are there still places to hang out with people so i dont have to use discord?
In open source land, there are a lot of applications named X-something, after the X Window System which has been around in one form or another for 40 years. Nowadays, X isn't as ubiquitous as it used to be and new applications don't tend to be named after it unless they are designed specifically for it.
With X-Chat, the original maintainer stopped working on it at some point and the project was carried on by a new group of people, who renamed it to avoid confusion / misrepresentation.