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At least you can still get AIR for OSX. Trying running the HipChat client on Linux... it's pretty painful, and getting more painful as time goes on (and we get further and further from Adobe's last release of AIR for Linux). It's even more painful to get it running on a 64 bit Linux distribution...


As we speak, I'm running a Windows virtual machine in fullscreen on my left monitor. The VM's sole job is running Adobe AIR for the HipChat client.


Why haven't I thought of that?!


Sounds efficient :)


Hey, what else are you going to use a 6-core CPU and 16GB of RAM for if not to throw VMs around willy-nilly?


I agree. I have to use the web based interface whenever I'm on Linux. I'd really like to see a native client.


We just use the XMPP support and Pidgin for linux.

No images or file transfers, but it's pretty pain free.


^ this - I've just given up trying to get TweetDeck running on 64 bit Ubuntu 11.10




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