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0 pointseinpoklum5y ago0 comments

... but in which typical client sessions look like Slack sessions, and the clients are typically heavy and slow and you would not enjoy running them on weak hardware :-(

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SahAssar5y ago

There are a number of different clients to choose from, including web-based, electron-based, native, terminal: https://matrix.org/clients/

einpoklumOP5y ago

> web-based

The browser is a resource hog :-(

> electron-based

Essentially a browser under the hood, but separate from your actual browser :-(

> native,

I tried a few of those last year, and had all sorts of trouble, but I guess it's time to give them another shot! Can any of them be made to behave and look like IRC chats? Not screens full of mostly white space?

IIRC however - Element is not a native client.

> terminal

That's good :-)

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