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Yeah, that's why I asked, because if you use only 1 chat protocol, a dedicated client is almost always better (now that ICQ and AIM are dead). Pidgin really shines if you need to aggregate multiple protocols in a single client.


> now that ICQ and AIM are dead

ICQ is alive and well, and has native clients for most modern OSes.

https://icq.com/

It got bought out and spun off when AOL were shutting down.


Indeed, and that is why I use it.

I certainly have no wish to have five different clients open, many of which not even scriptable when I can have all my contacts in one list.




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