[nmglug] nmglug irc channel

[William Pearson]

Had no idea there was an NMGLUG IRC channel


On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 10:07 AM Wesley Robbins <wezzels at gmail.com> wrote:

> Neochat is nice.  It works with the Garuda Linux distro.
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 8:43 AM Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:
>
>> Mark Galassi writes:
>> > If I might make a suggestion, IRC's model is annoying to many,
>> including a super old timer such as myself.
>> >
>> > How about creating a Matrix room?
>>
>> I'm curious: what's annoying about IRC that Matrix fixes?
>>
>> > Of course it's all based on free s/w, with no proprietary javascript
>> bits if you run it in your browser.  There are also desktop and mobile apps
>> that are free as well.
>>
>> What open source Matrix client(s) do you recommend?
>> aptitude search matrix on Ubuntu finds a lot of libraries
>> but I'm not seeing anything that looks like a client, and none
>> of the clients listed on https://matrix.org/clients/ seem to
>> be available in the ubuntu repos. I'm game to try it if you
>> can recommend a client.
>>
>> I gather that bridging between Matrix and IRC is supposed to be
>> easy, though? So maybe we could have an IRC bridge, which would
>> then give everyone a big choice of IRC clients.
>>
>>         ...Akkana
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