Poll Question for September: Favorite messaging client
August 31, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under Poll Question
What is your favorite messaging client on Linux? I’d like to know why and in particular, what are the advantages for you.
Choices are:
- Pidgin
- GyachI
- Kopete
- Empathy
I’ve only listed down those that I know of and have tried at one point in time or another. Right now, I’d have to admit that I am still using Pidgin mainly for everything. I couldn’t switch to Empathy yet because I still don’t know what’s wrong with it and as I’ve been busy with work, I haven’t been able to give it much time either. But I’d so love to use Empathy because of voice calls. Even though I have a Skype account, I’d rather use Google Talk’s voice chat feature because most of my contacts are there.
I suppose that the popularity of messaging protocols might vary from country to country but I’d still like to know what your favorite messaging client is. 
I’ve tried Empathy, just to check out wether voice chat works on the msn-network. It didn’t, so I think it doesn’t really has more advantage to me and it takes more bytes out of my memory than Pidgin.
Pidgin! the best!
I have used gaim for several years and saw no reason to switch until it was renamed to Pidgin, which I am using now. It offers all a need.
Would you believe, I’m still using GAIM? And right now it’s not showing my photo (avatar). Hay!
@rq Hi, there! Glad to see you’ve got a Linux-netbook blog
I’d love to read it more often. I am also using Pidgin and I really like it a lot. 
The only thing I’d like to happen with Empathy is for me to have voice chat, actually. Maybe there’s a way for Empathy and Pidgin to combine forces and develop and awesome app.
@MeikahDelid Maybe you could check your account settings. And let’s see if I could drop by your office to check that dilemma
@aqeeliz Am glad to see another Linux blogger
@Jeroen Right now, I have similar sentiments. Maybe if I could do voice chat via Empathy, I actually might use it more often. But Pidgin has a better interface for me now. The fact that it suggests a list of contacts when I type the first few letters is already quite helpful for me.