tl;dr :

  • Hexchat IRC client app development stopped
  • Linux Mint team was building IRC client to replace Hexchat
  • The team tried Matrix and liked it
  • Linux Mint’s communication channels are moving from IRC to Matrix
  • The desktop app will be named Matrix to avoid confusion
  • smileyhead
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    8 months ago

    You can. It just would not be good as preinstalled thing. Operating systems should not preinstall anything tethered to one server in my opinion.