I’ve Switched from Trillian to Pidgin
Written by admin the 9 of November at 9:19 pm
I’ve been using this program called Pidgin on Ubuntu for some time now and just this week I found that they had a Windows version also. Maybe they have had that for a while, I dont’ know, never really looked. But I found it this week, installed it at work (where we use Sametime) and I am using it for everything now.
I like the sleek interface and the fact that it actually works with IRC. Trillian was kinda hit-or-miss with IRC, and the connection to Sametime with Trillian was an additional plugin that you had to install (and needed admin rights to if it is a work machine) so it made it more cumbersome to get Sametime working. Not so with Pidgin, it is just another account-type connection like AIM or Yahoo. And Pidgin includes GoogleTalk also, which Trillian didn’t connect to unless you went through a Jabber server.
So go check out Pidgin, it is a sweet little program.
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