Best BT client (was Re: More on torrent clients ( which was Re: Here is Herd5 ))

[Gabriel Dragffy]

Steve Lamb wrote:
> Ari Torhamo wrote:
>> I've been using Deluge for a few weeks now and I'm satisfied. I always
>> had some problems with other clients.
> 
>     Bleh.  I nabbed Deluge and it looked promising.  That is until I ran face
> first into the one show-stopper bug it has.  If you change the port it uses it
> crashes out.  Deleting the config directory, manually editing the config file,
> purging and reinstall all do not work.  *sigh*
> 
>     This got me to start looking at some of the other clients I've used in the
> past.  g3Torrent was good but hasn't been updated in about 2 years.  It was a
> Windows only Python client that used wxWidgets for its GUI.  At the time it
> was comparable to Azureus in form and function it just didn't run under Linux.
> 
>     It did spawn a Linux version eventually which later turned into Rufus.
> Rufus hasn't been updated in 2 years either.  However I decided to download a
> copy of Rufus and give it a whirl.  Had to create one directory but after that
> it worked fine.  With the same torrents that Azureus had open it is using a
> whopping 90Mb.  Azureus was using 300Mb.  I did mention that Java was bloated, no?
> 
>     I'm a Python hacker but reviving Rufus is a tad out of my league.  I have
> no idea why on the Linux side of things we can't get anything other than
> bare-bones or super-bloated.  You'd think with the plethora of home-grown
> hackers on Linux we'd get that perfect middle ground without a problem.  On
> the Windows side I could go for something like uTorrent; all the look and
> field of Azureus with none of the bloat.
> 
> 

I've been holding out on my suggestion about BT client because that 
simple isn't what the thread was supposed to be about. But since the war 
has already started I feel I am free to lob in a missile or two :)

I have been using the *best* bt client on ubuntu for some time now.
The client I use is *uTorrent* and I can safely say that this works 
*perfectly* under wine, so I am a very happy camper.

Failing that it sounds like you may enjoy Ktorrent, but that's just not 
a patch on uTorrent.