IRC clients?

[Tedd]

I know this is going to hurt me. I dual-boot a Breezy 5.10 box and a Windows box. To answer some questions, I dualbooted because I am an avid gamer, part of a few communities, and I'm a graphics designer without the drive to learn how to use GIMP in-and-out. Call me lazy- I'll agree :P

But to the point of this post. What IRC client do you use for Windows? I <3 X-Chat but it's not freeware for windows. Any suggestions?

[Randomskk]

KVIrc is pretty good.
And you can get free (and legal) versions of xchat for windows, although I can't remember any locations right now.

[nanotube]

well... you could always use the irc client built into Gaim. :)

[BWF89]

You should use ChatZilla, it can be installed as an extension to Firefox which is how I use it or it can be installed independently, although I don't know how to get it to do that.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/16/
http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatZilla

[Tedd]

I tried KVIRC, it was alright, but ugly :P
GAIM has given me a bunch of trouble. I know of Chatzilla, but it often gives me EOF disconnect :\ I finally settled on the free version of XChat from Silverex. Thanks a lot, guys!

[Kvark]

The official Windows version of X-Chat is 30-day shareware. But the Linux version is open source (it is not freeware, there is a big difference between open source and freeware). Since it is open source you are allowed to download the source code and compile it yourself on Windows and even sell or give away your Windows version of X-Chat (as long as you don't abuse their trademark).

So if you know how to complie things then get the X-Chat source code. Otherwise, as Randomskk said it is easy to find unofficial but perfectly legal Windows versions of X-Chat that someone else has compiled.

edit: bah! I'm a couple minutes too slow. Glad you already found a solution :)

[s|k]

I use a free version of Xchat on Windows. Interestingly, did you know you can install mIRC with Wine? I had no clue, until someone told me recently. I use the irreplaceable screen+irssi on Ubuntu.