kate's infrastructure

I certainly have a tendency to stick to software I know when it comes to the basics.  If I’m not right in amongst it every day, I tend to stick to what works.  This is how I’m still using FTP clients from earlier in the decade.  But sometimes you had the break the rut and look for something a little better.

This is how I happened upon uTorrent:

I was using Azureus Vuze for years and years prior to that – it worked.  But it also deviated from my core use which was simple one-off downloads now and then.  Where vuze finally failed for me was the combination of the inevitable patch and restart cycle coupled with the bloated home screen with content promotion. 

uTorrent by comparison is an absolute pleasure to use.  It’s visually simple, yet covers all functions I’d expect in a very straight-forward manner.  Basically, the notion of a single function tool providing a single function extremely well, and doing nothing else, is quite outstanding.

The final feature I really like about uTorrent is also one of the simplest – the system tray notifications of a completed download are a really nice, simple touch.  uTorrent seems to understand the users who see bittorrent as a background process, rather than a point of focus.

I’m going to choose to completely overlook why you might like a bittorrent client, and accept simply that you do.  You should probably check out the (very tiny!) and useful uTorrent.