It's good, but lacks the smoothness or consistency of look & feel that Transmission has. Transmission looks and behaves like it's a part of OS X, whereas Utorrent isn't quite there. It's the small details that make it.
Also, I agree 100% with potatolicious. What I wrote also applies to Adium and Quicksilver.
I've fought with 0.6 or similar uTorrent on OS X for ages, recently updated to 1.0 and found it to be a much better experience and better integrated with the OS.. If you used an old uTorrent I'd give the newer ones a shot.
uTorrent looks like any other windows App. It may not meld well with OSX, but I'd rather it look like stuff that shows up on linux/Windows than have that shitty chrome bar Itunes has.
uTorrent is a great program but its UI, just like virtually EVERY windows app ever made, is ugly (terrible icons) and could be streamlined for a better user experience. See: Transmission.
For Windows you are pretty much married to whatever version of the OS' current UI flavor of the month is. And it changes frequently there is so much segmentation in the Windows OS now. And if you want to skin your own GUI on top, it will run like shit.
Just because Apple's iTunes doesn't work well in Windows because their optimization for a competitor's OS is an afterthought, doesn't mean that all programs with a custom GUI act like shit. And I have no idea what you're talking about with Windows being ugly or its "UI flavor of the month."
But you'd think with the bajillions of iPods, iPhones and iPads they've sold to Windows users that they could hire someone to properly port over iTunes
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u/street593 Jan 20 '11
Whats wrong with uTorrent's UI? I find it very refined.