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Why use this, when there's qBittorent?

tiagod 4y ago
Transmission used to handle more simultaneous torrents. Looking at the changelog, seems like 4.0 should handle even more.
Tajnymag 4y ago
Why wear a blue shirt, when there's yellow shirts available?
- reyqn 4y ago
  So no functional differences?
  - Tajnymag 4y ago
    I would say Transmission has simpler UI. Outside of UI, it's also packaged differently, compared to Qbittorrent, Transmission can be installed completely headlessly without dependencies to QT/GTK+X. In terms of actual features, Transmission is more lightweight. It doesn't support super-seeding, broadcatching, native SOCKS support and doesn't have built-in search engine integration.
    - baal80spam 4y ago
      > I would say Transmission has simpler UI This is true but for me this is a disadvantage. qBitTorrent allows to fine-tune a lot of settings. Not as many as Tixati but still.
      - tenpies 4y ago
        What settings would the average user find useful beyond adding a blocklist (which Transmission supports)? Genuinely curious as someone who used Transmission back in the day and appreciated the simplicity.
    - anon_123g987 4y ago
      "qbittorrent-nox" is the name of the headless package.
      - kasabali 4y ago
        It only provides a web ui which is inferior to the standalone ui version. If you want to go that route you might as well use Deluge, which is built on the same libtorrent library, has a proper daemon-client architecture with fully featured native clients for all major platforms.
bheadmaster 4y ago
Why use qBittorrent, when there's this?
happymellon 4y ago
Does qBittorrent support a web UI with headless access? That is the reason I use Transmission over anything else.
- smcn 4y ago
  It does, actually, yes: https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/set-up-qbittorrent-web-ui-linux/ https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/set-up-qbitt... Mentioned on homepage, too: https://www.qbittorrent.org/ https://www.qbittorrent.org/ > Remote control through Web user interface, written with AJAX >> Nearly identical to the regular GUI
laurent123456 4y ago
For some people, qBittorrent is unusable on macOS because of this bug: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/14360 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/14360 Transmission on the other hand works perfectly.
yborg 4y ago
qBitorrent UI is fugly.

Transmission used to handle more simultaneous torrents. Looking at the changelog, seems like 4.0 should handle even more.

Tajnymag 4y ago

Why wear a blue shirt, when there's yellow shirts available?

reyqn 4y ago
So no functional differences?
- Tajnymag 4y ago
  I would say Transmission has simpler UI. Outside of UI, it's also packaged differently, compared to Qbittorrent, Transmission can be installed completely headlessly without dependencies to QT/GTK+X. In terms of actual features, Transmission is more lightweight. It doesn't support super-seeding, broadcatching, native SOCKS support and doesn't have built-in search engine integration.
  - baal80spam 4y ago
    > I would say Transmission has simpler UI This is true but for me this is a disadvantage. qBitTorrent allows to fine-tune a lot of settings. Not as many as Tixati but still.
    - tenpies 4y ago
      What settings would the average user find useful beyond adding a blocklist (which Transmission supports)? Genuinely curious as someone who used Transmission back in the day and appreciated the simplicity.
  - anon_123g987 4y ago
    "qbittorrent-nox" is the name of the headless package.
    - kasabali 4y ago
      It only provides a web ui which is inferior to the standalone ui version. If you want to go that route you might as well use Deluge, which is built on the same libtorrent library, has a proper daemon-client architecture with fully featured native clients for all major platforms.

bheadmaster 4y ago

Why use qBittorrent, when there's this?

happymellon 4y ago

Does qBittorrent support a web UI with headless access? That is the reason I use Transmission over anything else.

smcn 4y ago
It does, actually, yes: https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/set-up-qbittorrent-web-ui-linux/ https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/set-up-qbitt... Mentioned on homepage, too: https://www.qbittorrent.org/ https://www.qbittorrent.org/ > Remote control through Web user interface, written with AJAX >> Nearly identical to the regular GUI

laurent123456 4y ago

For some people, qBittorrent is unusable on macOS because of this bug: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/14360 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/14360 Transmission on the other hand works perfectly.

yborg 4y ago

qBitorrent UI is fugly.