Better than TWP in having history and more settings at all, but worse because TWP have choice of 4 last languages when Linguist only 2 (and when I actually need more like 8 or just capability to set it by myself).
Actually Linguist have 5, but it is good idea to add option to control this behavior. I've just created task about it https://github.com/translate-tools/linguist/issues/469
