IRC client?

[Ace of Range]

I have never used IRC, so when I googled the topic, it seems as there are many IRC clients. Is there any particular client I need or someone would recommend? Im not sure how the servers work so I dont want to start downloading client after client unable to connect.

 

Thank you for your help.

[Coggy]

mIRC

[Jordai]

mIRC / Hexchat / swiftkit 

[Fuz]

Swiftkit my friend

[Mighty_Irwin]

mIRC for pc

 

Colloquy was ok for mac

[Mighty_Irwin]

here are two helpful topics:

 

 

[Ace of Range]

thank you everyone, it has come to my attention this was covered in a previous topic. I tried searching, but must have used poor keywords.