The chat client of Matrix

ArcVRArthur · on Jan 30, 2021

One of many. matrix.org/clients

blhack · on Jan 30, 2021

What is matrix? Like the movie? Or the math thing?

(https://matrix.org/)

vecter · on Jan 30, 2021

https://matrix.org/faq/

garmaine · on Jan 30, 2021

It's basically (IRC + XMMP) 2.0.

einpoklum · on Jan 30, 2021

... but in which typical client sessions look like Slack sessions, and the clients are typically heavy and slow and you would not enjoy running them on weak hardware :-(

SahAssar · on Jan 30, 2021

There are a number of different clients to choose from, including web-based, electron-based, native, terminal: https://matrix.org/clients/

einpoklum · on Jan 30, 2021

> web-based

The browser is a resource hog :-(

> electron-based

Essentially a browser under the hood, but separate from your actual browser :-(

> native,

I tried a few of those last year, and had all sorts of trouble, but I guess it's time to give them another shot! Can any of them be made to behave and look like IRC chats? Not screens full of mostly white space?

IIRC however - Element is not a native client.

> terminal

That's good :-)