h90 Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 are there any good replacements? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMac Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 (edited) I don't use any IM but a good link to find some: http://download.cnet...itorsRating+asc Edited October 20, 2010 by TheMac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaiharnGym Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 (edited) Trillian http://www.trillian.im/learn/tour-interop.html Edited October 20, 2010 by NaiharnGym Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaimite Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 (edited) I use empathy to communicate with Google and yahoo clients and find it OK. In my opinion Pidgin is not nearly as good, and I too would be interested in what alternatives others have tried edit I have just seen this site, but needles to say have not tried any of the suggestions yet. Only a few of them seem to support Linux Edited October 20, 2010 by thaimite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKASA Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 AMSN is a linux version of messenger and should be in your distro repo. It will log into hotmail etc. just like messenger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dharmabm Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 i've used pidgin for years without any complaints. connects to multiple chat servers: aim, msn, yahoo, google, etc... k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h90 Posted October 20, 2010 Author Share Posted October 20, 2010 Trillian http://www.trillian.im/learn/tour-interop.html but not for linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kebabbaro Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 (edited) Trillian http://www.trillian....ur-interop.html but not for linux Applications > Ubuntu Software Center and look for aMSN or Emesene: they're both MSN client, personally I prefer Emesene but different strokes for different folks. Enjoy your Linux Edited October 21, 2010 by kebabbaro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joncl Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 as said above Trillian and Amsn work well on all distro's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richb2004v2 Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 I use Pigeon too. The only thing is that it does not support webcam function. Other than that I find is work fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shriah Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Have you tried Emesene ? I heard its good but never used it. A review of the latest version click Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFarAndNear Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 I really recommend Pidgin too. It was the standard IM for ubuntu 1 year ago. ( Dont understand why they change it to Empathy) By the way there is a nice Ubuntu Package called "pidgin-otr", withit you can chat encrypted with all pidgin supported chat protocols. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kujirasan Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Kopete has multi chat outfit, and it support webcam, it is bundled with KDE, but works on other desk tops like Gnome etc There are few more , but I don't remember their name off hand . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devdrinker Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 Emesene is probably the most reliable linux MSN app ive used Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cat5 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 "Empathy isn't good" in what respect? As a basic chat client - for text only messages - it does the job very well. Also, it's not cluttered with all the crap that Microsoft and others like to put into a client. File transfers would be useful, but hardly essential, and webcam support would be nice too. As others have said, you could try aMSN. If you are not limited to the MSN network, you could use Skype for Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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