I use Vuze as a bit-torrent downloader.  I don’t use it’s interface for finding files on the web, I use it solely for downloading stuff that are only available via bittorrent.  It’s older interface I thought was better, more minimal when it was called Azureus.  It’s current interface is very flashy, tries to nag you into subscribing to some service which I have absolutely no need of, but if you tell it to go away, the nag box doesn’t seem to return and you can still use it like the old days.