Which mIRC thingy do you use?

Colin: http://bersirc.free2code.net/ — Freeware

And like Dave said, they’re pretty much equal, its a matter of preference.

mIRC, it’s simple to get used to.

XChat! I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned this one. I used to use mIRC, but when I found XChat I never turned back. I found it to be so much nicer than mIRC, both in terms of how it looks and in how easy it is to configure it. Most of the windows users I know use either XChat or mIRC. I used used to use Trillian as well, but I never really found it very easy to use. I couldn’t even figure out how to get it to auto-join a channel on connect. :S

As for Linux clients I always use irssi. I’ve never tried BitchX, but people have warned me away from it. What’s it like?

I too had to vote for other as Bersirc wasn’t one of the options.

I generally use mIRC on Windows, and BitchX or xchat on Linux. As for Bersirc, it seemed okay when I first got it, but it lacked a lot of basic graphical functionality, like (# for the current channel), though the scripting interface for mIRC is much more powerful than Bersirc’s undocumented Object-Based Pascal. (Pascal sucks anyway, mIRC is a C++-type syntax).

for windows i usually just login to my shell account where i use irssi (which is a great text based client). if for some reason i can’t do that (mostly for servers requiring ident) i use mIRC. although i hate how it’s not a free (as in speech) client.