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5 stars
Version: Pidgin 2.3.1
"You would want to use this!"
Pros: I love Pidgin! I found out about it when my laptop had Ubuntu on it, and Pidgin first started out as GAIM. This chat client has pretty much everything you need. It has history logging in plain text or HTML. Smooth sounds, very nice interface, low resource usage, customize names for your buddies, it goes on multiple users at a time, it allows you to set your status the way you want it, it never really crashes (not on me), very useful plugins, you can easily mute sounds instead of going back and forth (like AIM), and like I said, it has tabs, you can do multiple "file transfers", it's VERY customizable on viewing your buddy list the way you want, and best it's free, and I think it works better than Trillian!
Cons: Well, when you are direct connected with someone and you or your friend sends a file, it doesn't show you the statuses. I haven't seen any popup notifications or skins (although this I don't mind.) Most fonts viewed in 8pt and such doesn't really come out as 8pt. History logger and buddy icon files tend to clog if you don't clear it often. Also, it updates often to a new version and sometimes it's hard to keep up with.
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