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I don't have many hard and fast rules in my life, but one that I've learned through painful experience is this: Never Update a BitTorrent Client Version 1 of
by jasonkester 4y ago
I don't have many hard and fast rules in my life, but one that I've learned through painful experience is this:
Never Update a BitTorrent Client
Version 1 of every bittorrent client is lightweight, fast, and does nothing besides torrent your bits. Version 4 is 400gb, takes 30 seconds to load, shows ads, installs a rootkit phoning home to the NSA and mines bitcoin in the background.
This is an inviolate for bittorrent clients. There never has and never will be an exception.
- lylejantzi3rd 4y agoOne of these days, I'm going to make my own BitTorrent client, then sell it to a shady corporation so the BitTorrent client can fulfill its destiny.
- sph 4y agoThe malware-ridden version 4 of any torrent client is just the modern variant of http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
- zufallsheld 4y agoThen there is transmission: https://github.com/transmission/transmission https://github.com/transmission/transmission
- monsieurbanana 4y agoUs French call that l'exception qui confirme la règle.
- emsixteen 4y agoThe English equivalent is the direct translation - 'The exception that proves the rule'.
- monsieurbanana 4y agoIn English it's the other way around, there's more exceptions than rules, although it can still be learned through tough thorough thought.
- 4ggr0 4y agoAs a non-native english speaker my internal voice stuttered while trying to read "through tough thorough thought", felt like a real life 4th wall break.
- emsixteen 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule
- ilyt 4y agortorrent works fine too. Too many exceptions and the saying is dumb in the first place anyway...
- haunter 4y agoOr picotorrent https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent
- michaelmrose 4y agoQBittorrent is 16 years old and just recently made text harder to read on dark mode a probably 2 line fix in the future.
- mariusmg 4y ago>Never Update a BitTorrent Client Advice like this doesnt make any sense. https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-16171/Qbittorrent.html https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1617...
- moss2 4y agoDeluge is up in its 83rd version and its 5.3 Mb in size. https://github.com/deluge-torrent/deluge https://github.com/deluge-torrent/deluge
- alimbada 4y agoYou must not have strayed far from the crappy clients of old then. The latest stable Windows x64 build of qBittorrent is 27.9 MB (https://www.fosshub.com/qBittorrent.html https://www.fosshub.com/qBittorrent.html). Older versions fluctuate between 18MB and ~29 MB (https://www.fosshub.com/qBittorrent-old.html https://www.fosshub.com/qBittorrent-old.html). qBittorrent is open source and has no ads. I've been a user for many years now.
- jasonkester 4y agoDo you realize you're writing this on a thread about how the latest version of qBittorrent got crappy? This is exactly what I'm talking about. It's why I've been ignoring upgrade messages on qBittorrent (which is my daily driver) for over a year now.
- alimbada 4y ago> Do you realize you're writing this on a thread about how the latest version of qBittorrent got crappy? It's one issue which will likely be addressed in the near future. You're blowing it out of proportion.
- dmitryminkovsky 4y agoThey botched, in some peoples’ opinion, a visual update. It did not “get crappy.” QBT is not Transmission/uTorrent (yet).
- alimbada 4y agoWhat's wrong with Transmission? I haven't used it recently but it seemed more than competent enough when I did.
- dmitryminkovsky 4y agoPerhaps I am mistaken—someone please correct me if I am wrong—but I think its auto-updates were compromised with malware a few times.
- npteljes 4y agoYeah, proprietary stuff can really bite you, after the honeymoon period ends.
- ilyt 4y agoI think you just have a talent to finding shitty ones. I used rTorrent for over a decade, only recently migrated to Transmission because I no longer cared for the text UI and client-server model fit what I did with it better
- pessimizer 4y agoI'm guessing that you used Azureus/Vuze, and called people who told you it was bad elitists.