I'm using Gnucleus, and I'm pretty happy with it.

I've used Bearshare (many versions) and the spyware infestation thing is a hassle to get rid of and sometimes just crashes your computer trying to get rid of it. And that's assuming you're aware of spyware in the first place. I don't recommend Bearshare for a newbie.

I used Limewire and that worked pretty good. It's slow, but I'm on a dial-up connection and I'm used to slow. The biggest prob I had with it was a whole lot of "can't connect" messages. I don't want to say it was the fault of the program because it ran very dependably in every other way. So maybe I was doing something wrong. And I did get a few files through it now and again.

But now I'm running Gnucleus and I'm perfectly happy staying with it. I especially like the "resume" ability. It's intuitive and works great! It's a simple machine, but it's understandable. I recommend it, even for newbies.

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