When comparing Toxic vs qTox, the Slant community recommends qTox for most people. In the question“What is the best Tox frontend?” qTox is ranked 2nd while Toxic is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose qTox is:
Can you even call it chatting now without emoji to inject context for potentially ambiguous statements? Avatars are great too for keeping track of who you're talking to since usernames are inscrutable hashes.
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Pros
Pro Avatars and emoji
Can you even call it chatting now without emoji to inject context for potentially ambiguous statements? Avatars are great too for keeping track of who you're talking to since usernames are inscrutable hashes.
Pro Voice chat
Switching to voice chat is simple, though often fairly sensitive to network congestion with struggles to regain high-bitrates/audio clarity afterwards.
Pro File transfers
Sharing files is done between clients with the same encryption used for messages without any perceptible loss of speed.
Pro Group chats
Chatting with a group of people is no more complicated than the one-on-one conversations, without any need to re-join a "room" everytime you open the client as is done on IRC.
Pro Large variety of install packages
Releases for Linux distributions include native binary packages for Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE and Ubuntu. Also available are Flatpaks and AppImages as well as tarballs, not to mention the more ubiquitous EXE and DMG files catering to Windows and MacOS users, respectively.
Pro Cross-platform
Windows, macOS, Linux.