Transmission - 1.61

There was a time (1.2-ish, 1.3-ish) where Transmission seemed to be going through a rough time. I'm not sure if it was just a perfect storm of some major bugs, the need to divest it of some legacy code (eg: dropping older OSes), or some of the major rewrites required to get the application under the new license (ie: to cut off that crook W*t*n*be), but it seemed to be handling files, trackers, pieces, peers, the whole lot badly. Not all at once, but one then another, then another, with one or two corruption problems as well. I used to keep previous versions around in case I needed to roll back.

I don't do that any more. Nor do I (grudgingly) keep Azureus/Vuze around as a fallback. Since probably 1.5-ish onwards, T has returned to its days of greatness. I've upgraded from 1.75 to 1.76 by simply overwriting the old version. I don't worry about those problems any more. I know that there will always be glitches - it is *software* after all, and no application or OS can ever be perfect - but the storm has passed, and T has regained its place as both my preferred and recommended torrent client. There really is nothing like it, esp for the price. It's easy, reliable, stable, fast, doesn't hog every resource, has all the important features, and most of the nice-to-haves (Vuze has many more features, but they're mostly ridiculous). I can give T to both a newbie and an old hand and they'll both be happy.

...transmission is dutch! WTF? Unusable.