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post #11 of 26
lol @ skype. Every computer that program touches turns to crap. (in my experience) I avoid it like the plague.
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post #12 of 26
i like pidgin.
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post #13 of 26
Another vote for Trillian too. Perhaps even Miranda as well? Used that for a while and it was quite pleasant But tbh... I just use the chat function in Steam these days
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post #14 of 26
Trillian over pidgin alllllll dayyyyy longgggg. Roughly same resource use (for my work system) but trillian much nicer IMO
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post #15 of 26
I'm currently using Pidgen and it's using about... 19MBs of RAM. Not bad in my opinion.

I would be using Trillian, but it stopped logging into my messengers, so I'm using Pidgen while I wait for an excuse to reformat.
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post #16 of 26
I use Digsby myself
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post #17 of 26
Pidgin is pretty nice imo
    
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post #18 of 26
I use skype 4.2 right now, its memory usage is a bit higher than 4.1 but 5.0 has a memory leak issue

i can send you the 4.1 installer if you want
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post #19 of 26
Pidgin
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post #20 of 26
Everyone I know uses Skype. Chat, voice, video, files.. blah blah blah endless.
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