I don’t know what they did with the new 1.3x releases but the down/up speeds are a tenth of what they used to be (using the same settings from 1.22 which had great speeds). I’m on OSX and have been using Transmission for the past 6 months or so, however I’ve changed over to Vuze for the time being. The speeds and the options seem to be better than Transmission. I just miss my minimal cpu usage and slim interface!

Transmission is a great program and I’d use it if my speeds weren’t so slow. Hopefully they’ll be able to fix it. This bloaty cpu death with Vuze is breaking my balls…

You are thinking in windows terms. Yes, one way of installing thunderbird is to go to the website, download the source, compile the source, run the installer, install it. That is the windows way of doing it, so it is included in linux. However, the way you install applications in LINUX is:

you go to your terminal
you type “sudo apt-get install thunderbird”
you type your password

Thunderbird is now installed, and it’s all ready to go in your “start” menu.

I can say the same about Windows. You need to go to some site to download a program, then click alot of “Next” just to install it, and when you think you’re all done you get a notice that you forgot to crack that program… Then you visit a bunch of websites, get bunch of viruses and finally find that crack.

The only big advantage to this is that you also get alot of porn ads and can wank couple of times while in search.

I’ll just ignore that “integrate to the OS” because you clearly dont understand what’s the functions of linux kernel.

Okay, whats next? Oh, how to use ubuntu’s package system. I’d explain, but its just easier (yes, im lazy) to link this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/add-applications/C/gnome-app-install.html
You can also surf the help for more answers to your questions

Now that “windows menus”, I tried to explain that its easier to edit an configuration file than going through menus to find the “Preferences” button and again going through menus to edit whatever you wanted to edit.

“it is not SIMPLE”

Yet, its not that hard.

My point being, from the box, right from the start, you cant do simple things without your fancy DEB PACKAGE SYSTEM. It should be already integrated into the OS and work automaticly, your saying it comes with ubuntu, and mabye it does, it sure as hell wasnt apparent to me how to use it. It still doesnt matter, it is not SIMPLE, and it needs to be that way. You can say that im lazy or just noob (Which isnt the case), but for small tasks like this, you shouldnt be jumping through any hoops.

You complain about windows menus, yet your willing to open up another program just to install a program, typing in command lines and running scripts and doin all this shit..

Tell me, what would be the step by step way to do what your saying can be done so ‘easily’?

And this is what you would call.. ‘Owned’ and that person being you.

And there is. Its called Debian software package, or DEB in short. but since not all linux distributions use DEB package system (only Debian clones like Ubuntu do) not everybody can run them.

That’s why you need to “type commands” to install software.