Use the 'Search' feature for various other OS references, such as 'Linux' 'Unix' or 'Mac/MacOS' - You'll find pretty much the same answers everywhere.
Khaled, and other contributors towards the mIRC project, simply haven't got the time to make mIRC compatible with other OS's other than Windows.
You just have to take a look at the Requests forum to see how much needed (or needS
) to be changed, and then there's the server lists to compile, the Forums to deal with, the hundreds of emails, the bug fixes etc etc.
Now, to do ALL that (but starting from scratch) for another OS would be impossibly time consuming (there are only 24 hours in a day after all). And what would be the point? You'd get a bunch of *Nix/Mac users saying,
"haha, xChat/ircle 0wns mIRC, that's just a lame ass Winblows product" or words to that effect. So, in the end, you'd be dedicating 99.9% of your life (not including sleep) to making an mIRC version compatible with another OS, only to have about 2,000 (or less) people download it, and have quadruple that amount of people put it down =)
I'm sure it's hard enough to deal with the insults just for Windows users, let alone having to take on the rest of the Internet community
You can also see an answer to this question in the mIRC FAQ section of this site. Direct links
here and
here.
Happy chatting.
Regards,
