Default GNOME bittorrent client choice for openSUSE 11.2

[eet]

Hello!

openSUSE 11.0 and 11.1 came with Monsoon as their default bittorrent client for the GNOME-desktop; now seems a good time to review whether this choice was a success with the openSUSE users.

What do you think? Should openSUSE stick with Monsoon, do you want another default BT-client or don't you care or know? See FunkyPenguin's original presentation page from early 2008 for infos on the clients in this poll.

Remember; default BT client is the one you get upon installing openSUSE - other clients can always be installed afterwards.

[alan_mcgovern]

If there are particular reasons why you don't want the current default, please mention them. Similarly, if there are particular reasons why a different client would be better than the current one, those would definitely be worth hearing.

[Retor]

Monsoon keeps crashing on me. Also, the download status never seems to be updated, so each time I restart I have to recheck them - which takes a while.

Now, for all I know, this may be fixed easily. I don't know. But I'm just a desktop user, and not a very techy one at that.

[Lacrocivious]

While not a truly active openSuSE user, I do load it from time to time to check out where the distro has gotten to, usually with an eye to similarities and differences between Fedora and Ubuntu.

I would prefer Transmission as the default openSuSE BitTorrent client for the following reasons:

(1) I have enjoyed using the client since early 2006;

(2) I prefer Transmission's low-resource-use, no-bloat design discipline;

(3) I like the transmission-daemon being controllable from command line (transmission-remote), webui, or gui Qt client (experimental, presently called qtr);

(4) Transmission is extremely robust and reliable; and

(5) Sorry, but I cannot feel good about any mono app because I have been at this stuff since 1981 and I *know* Micros**t will inevitably and ineluctably do what they have always done, if and when mono becomes inextricably entangled with any linux apps and/or distros. The scorpion and the frog.

Oh, and (6) Transmission works well in KDE 4, which I also hope will become the openSuSE default, but that's a different poll

[EarthMind]

Transmission because it's a full-featured client that's not written in Python.