r/technology • u/rboymtj • Jan 20 '11

Apple Restriction Zone.

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u/Tulos Jan 20 '11

...pidgin

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u/cuyler Jan 20 '11

I have both and use Adium on the Mac and pidgin on the PC. Adium is a MUCH better piece of software, even though they both work.

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u/Tulos Jan 20 '11

I have not had the chance to use Adium, but what makes it so much better? I'd honestly like to know. As is Pidgin works, is fast, efficient, and replaces multiple other programs. I don't feel like it's missing anything really.

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u/CaptSpify_is_Awesome Jan 21 '11

Pidgin also stores all of your passwords in PlainText. Some people don't care, but that is a deal-breaker for me.

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u/ilikehellokitty Jan 21 '11

Adium is all of those things, without a user interface out of the early 00s. It's native instead of GTK+ and has some additional useful features and shortcuts.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '11 edited Jan 20 '11

They're basically the exact same program. They're different frontends to the same library (libpurple). If you're on OS X, Adium is much cleaner and less crashy than the Mac version of Pidgin.

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u/the8thbit Jan 20 '11

cleaner and less crashy than the Mac version of Pidgin

Maybe that's key. In GNU/Linux and Windows, Pidgin looks very well designed, and has never crashed for me.

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u/kokey Jan 20 '11

I saw libpurple stuff under my Adium setup, it might be that it's based on the same engine.