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qBittorrent is much better

by spacewrangler 8y ago

tmikaeld 8y ago
Transmission is betterst
- saagarjha 8y ago
  Transmission is great but they lost a lot of trust when they started distributing malware from their website.
  - cremp 8y ago
    And twice at that.
  - ambicapter 8y ago
    link? Because the only time I can think of is when their website got hacked and the developers sent out notice as soon as they found out.
    - saagarjha 8y ago
      That’s it. As a sibling comment mentioned, I did not phrase that well.
  - ballenf 8y ago
    That's a very disingenuous phrasing. They were hacked. Maybe (probably) due to bad security practices, but they didn't intentionally distribute malware.
    - saagarjha 8y ago
      You’re right. I’d edit my comment, but it looks like I can’t anymore.
- Uberphallus 8y ago
  rTorrent + tmux is my poison
- amyjess 8y ago
  I used to use Transmission, but I gave up on it because of UI/settings issues. I've since switched to KTorrent.
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squarefoot 8y ago
Though I use Transmission on my NAS4Free box, which I control remotely through the excellent transgui program (https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui) I also install qBittorrent to all Windows/Linux users asking for a client for it being very stable and consistent among platforms, the latter very important for newbies, but I see now they're porting Transmission to Windows as well. Good! I don't consider closed source clients for security reasons, or bloated ones (Vuze etc.) because I'd rather use a spare GB of RAM to make a filesystem more snappy than to load a Java environment that eats alone half the resources of a small server.
slfnflctd 8y ago
Last I heard, Deluge was the preferred minimalist client. I've never noticed much difference between the ones I've tried other than that some have ads. Performance seems to be pretty much the same across the board.
- Latty 8y ago
  I wouldn't called Deluge minimalist - that's Transmission. Deluge is more of a power-tool, albeit one most people can use happily. The big thing that I like is that you can use the desktop GUI (GTK) client with a remote daemon doing the actual downloading. Plenty of them have web-clients (Deluge does as well), but it's nice using the proper GUI. Other than that, it has all of the usual tools you'd want from a client.
NVRM 8y ago
qBittorrent is much better

qBittorrent is much better

tmikaeld 8y ago

Transmission is betterst

saagarjha 8y ago
Transmission is great but they lost a lot of trust when they started distributing malware from their website.
- cremp 8y ago
  And twice at that.
- ambicapter 8y ago
  link? Because the only time I can think of is when their website got hacked and the developers sent out notice as soon as they found out.
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    That’s it. As a sibling comment mentioned, I did not phrase that well.
- ballenf 8y ago
  That's a very disingenuous phrasing. They were hacked. Maybe (probably) due to bad security practices, but they didn't intentionally distribute malware.
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    You’re right. I’d edit my comment, but it looks like I can’t anymore.
Uberphallus 8y ago
rTorrent + tmux is my poison
amyjess 8y ago
I used to use Transmission, but I gave up on it because of UI/settings issues. I've since switched to KTorrent.

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squarefoot 8y ago

Though I use Transmission on my NAS4Free box, which I control remotely through the excellent transgui program (https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui) I also install qBittorrent to all Windows/Linux users asking for a client for it being very stable and consistent among platforms, the latter very important for newbies, but I see now they're porting Transmission to Windows as well. Good! I don't consider closed source clients for security reasons, or bloated ones (Vuze etc.) because I'd rather use a spare GB of RAM to make a filesystem more snappy than to load a Java environment that eats alone half the resources of a small server.

slfnflctd 8y ago

Last I heard, Deluge was the preferred minimalist client. I've never noticed much difference between the ones I've tried other than that some have ads. Performance seems to be pretty much the same across the board.

Latty 8y ago
I wouldn't called Deluge minimalist - that's Transmission. Deluge is more of a power-tool, albeit one most people can use happily. The big thing that I like is that you can use the desktop GUI (GTK) client with a remote daemon doing the actual downloading. Plenty of them have web-clients (Deluge does as well), but it's nice using the proper GUI. Other than that, it has all of the usual tools you'd want from a client.

NVRM 8y ago

qBittorrent is much better