I’ve tried Lemoa: it’s truly atrocious to put it mildly. Besides, I couldn’t compile it on my GTK3 distro, there is no .deb, and using Flatpak means wasting hundreds of megabytes for what should be a simple, lightweight client. If I want to waste RAM, my browser is already running so I might as well use the web app from my instance.
I’ve tried Lemonade: the Python code doesn’t run (again, GTK4 dependencies), and the Flatpak doesn’t even display anything.
Liftoff is Flutter. No thanks…
NeonModem isn’t complete.
Servitor is command line. I love the command line, but that’s just the wrong environment for this.
Is there really nothing on Linux?
My machines are typical of today I guess. I have enough RAM and disk, but I also keep many things open because I have to. Like for work, I typically keep 2 VMs running, many terminals, tools of all kinds open, browser with many tabs open… And when I compile stuff, I don’t have 500M to throw at a stupid forum client.
Besides, I’m from a time when people laughed at X when it required 2M just to open an empty window. Now a simple BBS client requires the resources of an entire OS and nobody bats an eyelid. Like… really??