I would like to (ab)use this topic for a great opperunity for people to get in toutch with KVIrc [/spam 😃]
KVIrc is in my oppinion a great client for both nx and windows.
And provides more that you could ever dream off. It's one of the few clients outthere that truely has it's onw powerfull scripting language. It's open source and free for every one.
Fully theme-able, support many different encoding types.
Has an build-in encryption engine (with SHA, Rijdeal, etc, etc)
And many more!
(and i get to build thier new site 🙂)
So forget about mIrc, BitchX (wich looks lousy) xChat and every other client. KVIRc is the way to go!