Just a reminder of all the websites and apps we have groups on you can join to keep track of our news, and some let you post and chat away in yourselves! There's something for everyone here.
Telegram For the slightly more privacy concerned (and it's just lovely)
Channel (for our news): https://telegram.me/linuxgaming
SuperGroup (anyone can join and post in): https://telegram.me/linux_gaming
Google+ For the people keeping G+ alive
Our page (for our news): https://plus.google.com/+Gamingonlinux
Group (anyone can post in): https://plus.google.com/communities/113630288541740437071
Twitter Probably our most popular and most followed place!
https://twitter.com/gamingonlinux
Discord It's the new hip thing, haven't you heard?
https://discord.gg/0rxBtcSOonvGzXr4
IRC For the oldskool
#gamingonlinux on freenode (or our web IRC)
Facebook For the rest of you
https://www.facebook.com/gamingonlinux/
Steam I always forget we have this
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/gamingonlinux
Is there somewhere I missed that's genuinely useful?
Telegram For the slightly more privacy concerned (and it's just lovely)
Channel (for our news): https://telegram.me/linuxgaming
SuperGroup (anyone can join and post in): https://telegram.me/linux_gaming
Google+ For the people keeping G+ alive
Our page (for our news): https://plus.google.com/+Gamingonlinux
Group (anyone can post in): https://plus.google.com/communities/113630288541740437071
Twitter Probably our most popular and most followed place!
https://twitter.com/gamingonlinux
Discord It's the new hip thing, haven't you heard?
https://discord.gg/0rxBtcSOonvGzXr4
IRC For the oldskool
#gamingonlinux on freenode (or our web IRC)
Facebook For the rest of you
https://www.facebook.com/gamingonlinux/
Steam I always forget we have this
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/gamingonlinux
Is there somewhere I missed that's genuinely useful?
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Last edited by marvin2711 on 27 Mar 2016 at 8:39 pm UTC
Last edited by marvin2711 on 27 Mar 2016 at 8:39 pm UTC
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Hm. I wouldn't recommend Telegram to privacy concerned. Its server isn't FOSS.
May be there should be some presence on diaspora*? https://diasporafoundation.org
Also, in addition to IRC it's good to have an XMPP chat room.
Last edited by Shmerl on 27 Mar 2016 at 7:35 pm UTC
May be there should be some presence on diaspora*? https://diasporafoundation.org
Also, in addition to IRC it's good to have an XMPP chat room.
Last edited by Shmerl on 27 Mar 2016 at 7:35 pm UTC
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I didn't realize the irc room existed. God, I miss the old days. Lived in IRC from '98-'01.
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IRC is quite actively used by a lot of FOSS projects. Which is kind of surprising, since I find XMPP to be better in many aspects.
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I'm fairly new to Linux and still learning the ropes. Never used IRC. Can someone recommend a good client and why?
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I think you forgot Steam
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I'm fairly new to Linux and still learning the ropes. Never used IRC. Can someone recommend a good client and why?
I've tried Empathy on Linux but not much else. Used mIRC in my old Windows days.
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Pidgin is pretty good for IRC.
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Smuxi is what I use for IRC: https://smuxi.im/
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There are also Web clients for IRC.
Last edited by Shmerl on 27 Mar 2016 at 9:32 pm UTC
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Thank you all for the suggestions. It's very diverse, everyone seems to be using something else. I will have a look.
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Thunderbird has an IRC interface as well! As for standalone: XChat.
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For an irc client, I recommend Weechat, though I haven't used it for a while. :/
It's wonderfully extensible, with perl, python2, ruby, tcl, and lua support.
It's wonderfully extensible, with perl, python2, ruby, tcl, and lua support.
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My girlfriend and I recently found Telegram after having troubles on my end with the horribly outdated Linux Skype client; e.g. buggy, no instant image sharing, etc. I heartily recommend Telegram for those not put off by the lack of FOSS servers. It has all the features one can expect, sharing images, animated Gifs, videos and links within the app, an Android app, and most importantly: They keep it up to date across all OS's! ^^
I was quite surprised when I saw GOL now has a Telegram feed, but I'm not complaining :P
I was quite surprised when I saw GOL now has a Telegram feed, but I'm not complaining :P
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By the way, diaspora* has quite a lot of Linux users, because it's probably most feature rich FOSS social network, and decentralized one with that.
See http://the-federation.info
See http://the-federation.info
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I've tried looking into diaspora, but to be honest I find the entire interface terrible. It's really not for me.
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Its interface changed quite a lot during the recent years. How long ago did you check it?
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Its interface changed quite a lot during the recent years. How long ago did you check it?
Just now, it's terrible.
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What exactly do you think is terrible about it? Also, what's the version that your pod is using?
Last edited by Shmerl on 27 Mar 2016 at 11:17 pm UTC
Last edited by Shmerl on 27 Mar 2016 at 11:17 pm UTC
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Example of how it looks for me (opened #linux tag):

I'm sure it can be improved, and there are several efforts for it. But it's very usable.
Last edited by Shmerl on 27 Mar 2016 at 11:22 pm UTC

I'm sure it can be improved, and there are several efforts for it. But it's very usable.
Last edited by Shmerl on 27 Mar 2016 at 11:22 pm UTC
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