Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Support

Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by Al-Khwarizmi on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:10AM (#20242629)

I run mIRC on Wine.

I know, I know, there are plenty of Linux native IRC clients. In fact, mIRC has been quite stagnant lately. But to me, its UI is still unsurpassed (20 years of muscle memory also help), and it has less latency than alternatives (even with Wine).

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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by Newtonip on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:28AM (#20242760)

I've been doing the same thing forever.

mIRC is the first client I ever used and I tried other ones (XChat, BitchX since running irc in a terminal sounded appealing, Konversation) and they just felt wrong so I stuck with mIRC.

It's been running perfectly in WINE since the late '90s.

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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:49AM (#20242944)

I'm surprised that nobody's made an open source clone, since it's a long-standing app, apparently better than the available alternatives, and fundamentally IRC just isn't that hard.

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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by Shorel on Saturday June 22, 2019 @02:00PM (#20250858)

They would do an Electron application.

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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by tambourine_man on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:20AM (#20242699)

I would never ever have guessed such use case.

Another proof that you never know how people will use your software.

Reminds me of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1172/

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