Transmission as a bit torrent client
September 23, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under General
I used to have gnome-btdownload as my torrent client. However useful it was, I envied my sister who was using uTorrent on Windows. I found its user interface better than the overly simple looking one used by gnome-btdownload.
Once you have a torrent file, you could already open it with Transmission. Then you could see its progress. From nothing to something, as long as it could download from the connected peers.
The nice thing about Transmission is that when you select a particular torrent, you could view its details so you see how long it would still take to download the file/s as well as how much has been downloaded already. If you have 10 files in your torrent, you’d be able to see their status when you check them out by right-clicking on them and selecting details to be viewed.
There are also separate tabs depending on the state of the torrent: Downloading, Seeding, etc. It gives you a summary of what’s going on with your torrent.
If you haven’t tried this one yet, please feel free to do so 
I really, really, really despise transmission. It’s not new user friendly at all…and when I say new user, I once again mean NEW user…one that hasn’t used Linux before.
@devnet Really? How come? It seems to be an easy to use torrent client, coming from a utorrent user perspective. utorrent was something I’ve used in Windows before.
You can’t beat btlaunchmanycurses in my opinion!
OK it’s not massively newbie friendly (runs in a terminal, not a GUI), but on the other hand, it’s very easy to just fire and forget it, and configuration isn’t particularly hard either (you just have to do it in the text editor of your choice, but it’s all the same stuff you’d have to enter in a GUI client).
Still, I did like uTorrent, and actually Transmission looks pretty good, so maybe I’ll give it a try after all!
Transmission is really fast and simple. I like Deluge a littlebit better though. It has a bit more features (which I all use) and it’s also very lightweight. Version 1.0.0 of the application was released just a few days ago and it’s absolutely amazing! You should really try it out.
- Benjamin
I’m really liking Deluge, myself.