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.
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.
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.
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