Proposing Transmission BitTorrent client as default

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

On 10/01/2008, Flávio Martins <xhaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 10, 2008 6:18 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I asked in #Ubuntu on freenode now, if anyone could recommend a bit
> > torrent client for Ubuntu. People actually recommended all the other
> > clients, except gnome-btdownload and Transmission. I thought that was
> > interesting. I then asked in #Ubuntu-OffTopic how people felt about
> > replacing gnone-btdownload, and the response was a unanimous yes.
>
>  - The interesting thing is that most tech savy people seem to prefer
> something that has a lot of knobs and switches. Some users probably would
> attribute lack of features/options to lack of quality. However the spirit of
> the Gnome desktop is to have just enough options and sensible defaults. I
> really can't recommend a client that respects it better than Transmission.
>
> Flávio Martins

I agree. It's simple enough that everyone should be able to use it
without any problems, and it's advanced enough so that most users
won't have to replace it. Many will replace it anyway, but I'm
absolutely certain more users would use the default application than
today. I think that's important.

Jo-Erlend Schinstad