Linux newsleecher/utorrent/CCCP equivalents?

I'd like to try out linux this summer, but before I jump in I'd like to know what linux users use to download from usenet/torrents, and what they use to play video.

I watch anime and foreign films, so soft sub support is important for me, and I watch shitty porn so support for wmv/other shitty windows codecs is also important.

utorrent - best torrantin HANDS DOWN, but abit greedy on resources
rtorrent - EFFICIENT: download at 700Kbps whilst watching animu.
deluge - The consistent torrent performance of utorrent but needs resources.

rtorrent and deluge are both GUI but I think deluge has a commandline option.

This is a moot point however since i recently learned you can run GUI applications in linux using nohup and xmove