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Can IRC only be used with Linux?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

No. A wide variety of IRC clients are available for other platforms, including Windows and Mac OS X. Most IRC servers are designed to be run on Linux and Unix-like systems, but a few, such as WeIRCd, have been ported to Windows as well.

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