What's "better" depends on whether you 'just' want to download a file, or if you want to build an larger workflow. For me, I usually want to download files and

What's "better" depends on whether you 'just' want to download a file, or if you want to build an larger workflow. For me, I usually want to download files and I'm usually not doing any more processing, so I tend to type in *wget" first.