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Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want?

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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On 2014-08-16, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> >

> ... I never much liked Gnome, but I dislike their philosophy of
> "fewer choices, because the user is a mental imbicile" even more
> vehemently, and as such I don't use their desktop, and very little of
> their software (Gimp, Transmission come to mind; that might truly be
> it).

I despise Gnome for much the same reasons.

If you want to reduce that list by one, then rtorrent
(http://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/) is an excellent bit-torrent
client, but without all the GUI fancyness.

But then that means it can be run inside a screen/tmux session so you
can connect to it from anywhere you can get ssh access to the machine,
and as well, you can run it on a headless box if you wish.

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Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-16 04:14 +0000
  Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-08-16 09:14 +0100
    Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-08-16 13:32 +0100
      Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-16 15:59 +0300
  Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-16 20:02 +0000
    Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-16 21:48 +0000
      Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-16 22:13 +0000
        Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-08-16 22:43 +0000
        Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-16 23:52 +0000
  Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-08-17 14:38 +0100
    Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-08-17 15:04 +0100

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