Personally I used to use Pidgin, but since I moved my XMPP to Gajim because of OMEMO I have no need to stay tied to it necessarily. So I’m looking to expand my horizons, and I figured here’s as good a place as any to start a discussion about Linux IRC clients.
What do y’all use? Terminal, GUI, both?
When I feel the need to visit an IRC community, I generally use ERC, which is built into Emacs. Out of the box, it provides a really pleasant minimal IRC experience. Of course, much like anything in Emacs, it can be extended to your heart’s content.
Emacs also comes with another client called rcirc, because Emacs apparently needs to ship with two builtin IRC clients? I haven’t used that one much.