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+1 qbittorrent
At least there's one thing these Lemmy people agree with me on.
Random semi-related thought. I'm going through the comparison of BitTorrent clients page on Wikipedia and it's amazing how many clients end up as Adware.
I’m currently using Transmission again
qBittorent for Windows and LibreTorrent for Android.
Qbittorrent, Transmission and Ktorrent the Last two When some updates breaks Qbittorrent
I keep recommending Tribler and I don't know why it's not more popular. Anything wrong with it?
I appreciate the ability for the tor-like layered routing with tribler. Getting the headless UI set up is annoying, though.
qBittorrent here.
+1 for qBittorrent. I used to be a Deluge fan, but qBittorrent seems more performant and feature-packed.
Still qbittorrent. Docker container with web UI makes it trivial.
transmission in docker container on NAS, with dedicated IP that gets forced through VPN on my router
qBittorrent and rtorrent are very popular.
I've had a poor experience with Deluge, a bug report completely disregarded years ago as I wasn't able to provide (very technical) details to the developers without some assistance, which they smugly refused to provide (I don't act entitled). I then stumbled upon a post where one of them discussed the reason why they wouldn't add workarounds in the installer as qBittorrent did (firewall exception and a couple of other things I can't recall right now), their reasoning and their wording struck me as strongly ideological, and it made me uneasy. I've had a similar experience with Affinity developers who (again, by way of ideology) refused to add an "interface scale" parameter to their programs, adamant on letting the OS handle the scaling, even though I couldn't change my OS scale because it messed up other programs. Their response was "it's the other program's fault". Very helpful. 👍🏼
Anyway, I was trying to say I don't like Deluge. To answer your question I know it runs via a variety of interfaces so I wouldn't be surprised it's your best bet. I personally use qBittorrent .
qBittorrent is probably the most commonly used client. Transmission is another popular option, especially among macOS users, since it has a familiar design and feels more native.
rTorrent is great if you want a CLI app, and ruTorrent offers a web frontend. Another option that you can run on a server is Deluge.
You can control qBittorrent from Android using qBitController or from iOS using qBitControl (you can get it from AltStore after adding the Michael-128 repo). Transdroid supports other clients as well, and it's my personal favorite. If you want to torrent on the Android device itself, check out LibreTorrent. For iOS, use iTorrent (also available on AltStore).
If you already plan on self-hosting, or have root access on your seed box (or some other way of installing applications/deploying Docker containers), I also recommend setting up bitmagnet. It's basically your own torrent indexer and search engine. It can also integrate with your *arr applications.
Do you use altstore? Have you tried livecontainer to avoid the 3 app limit?
I don't think that applies when using the EU version and Apple's new sideloading framework. But I don't know, since I only have 1 app sideloaded right now.
Transmission is my favorite design-wise on macOS but I wish it had i2p support.
I never even realized that Transmission doesn't support it. I just have I2P set up on my seedbox (but it typically requires root access, so unfortunately not everyone can replicate this). I would imagine it's pretty flaky on macOS though? I'm pretty sure the vast majority of I2P users run Linux, so the macOS client probably doesn't get as much development and attention.
arch-qbittorrentvpn docker container, because it was the easiest to set up on my TrueNAS home server.
Deluge is always my goto.
On a headless seedbox Deluge/ruTorrent/Transmission are still reliable, most of the paid seedbox services still default with those.
qBittorrent is hugely popular on the desktop front and has been getting more popular as a headless client now that the web ui has improved, also look into qbittorrent-nox if you don't have a gui to do initial setup with.
Tixati
Not sure why it's not more popular. I use and donate. I've had better performance with this than qbittorrent.
Closed source, and their prominent "contains NO Spyware" disclaimer doesn't quite instill confidence. I have also never even heard about it until now.
I've had email communication with the devs and again, I'm a biased donor. They are just starting afloat on donations. Respect your closed source concerns completely, but it's a superior piece of software imo and I see no signs of malificence. If you are an open source purist I get it, there are other options. If you are using any closed source software at all though, it would seem to me hypocritical to show a bias against this particular app.
I don't use that client either - But to be fair the dev (Kevin Hearn) has a long history with P2P software e.g. depending how old you are you may have used his WinMX software back in the day. He isn't known for sticking spyware/malware into his software so I sort of trust the software he puts out in that sense. He also maintains other non-torrent P2P file sharing software outside of Tixati.
Of course it would be better if it was open source but he's never been an open source coder AFAIK.
qBittorrent. With a quick UI switch to vuetorrent for the tablet. LXC bound to a bridge thats VPN connected.
I used transmission for years, but the larger my library got the more issues I had. Currently using Qbit and loving the categories for easier management, especially with the *arr suite.
Interesting. It just gets bloated with magnets?
transmission
I'm a much bigger fan of the deluge thin client, personally.
This is what I used in the past but I had issues with the Deluge thin client when using a Deluge docker image. Did you experience the same thing as well?
Nope! My deluge server is hosted in a docker network with gluetun, and I access it from both thin clients and the web interface.
Mind me asking which docker image you are using? I was never able to get the thin client to work through docker
Deluge on desktop, Flud on mobile. 😃
Flud looks proprietary and has ads.
Libretorrent works just as well and is open source.
I hear people use the search function of QBitTorrent tied to VPN tunnel. Basic, but it works
rTorrent with Flood front end.
My only complaint so far is being unable to reach the rTorrent TUI when it's running headless. It otherwise works great.
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