===== Connecting to IRC via IRC Clients =====
Once you get the hang of IRC you will find an IRC Client is much better to use.
Here is some help setting up the most common ones

=== Windows ===
== X-Chat WDK ==
Setting up X-Chat is fairly straight forward. However it is important to note that if you are on Windows, you will need [[http://code.google.com/p/xchat-wdk/|X-Chat-WDK]] which is open source and free.
== mIRC ==
Sadly, I don't use mIRC, and it isn't free so I cannot test out, however if someone uses mIRC they can write this in
=== Mac OS X ===
	* X-Chat Azure  (Free)
	* Textual IRC Client (or if you are feeling daring compile it your self from source using xcode)
=== Linux ===
  * Linux: apt-get install xchat, pacman -S xchat, yum install xchat, or emerge -av xchat.
  I will assume you know how to configure this further, as you are probably pretty experienced in such matters