• adarza@lemmy.ca
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      26 days ago

      it’s qbittorrent, not gbittorrent. that’s really why.

      transmission has been the default on so many gnome-based distributions for a very long time because of its gtk frontend… it also has a qt frontend, curses cli, daemon, windows qt build, and native mac versions…

      qbittorrent also runs on more than just linux, but is qt. only qt. how many qt-only applications find their way into the default package set for gnome or gtk desktops released by debian, ubuntu, mint, fedora, redhat, suse, etc, etc.

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        25 days ago

        Yeah, I much prefer cli front ends over web ones as all my torrent boxes have been headless. I realize with most client server archs I could connect via gui but still I prefer cli.

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      26 days ago

      It does what it used to do 15 years ago and it does it well. The arr-stack tried to make me use qBittorrent. I said no and did it with Transmission anyway.

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        24 days ago

        Qbt likewise has been doing it for 20 years and doing it well 🤷

        Works great in my friends arr stack

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      25 days ago

      It’s lightweight, open source, and does exactly what it’s supposed to.

      I kind of legacyed my way into it. It was the first thing I grabbed after uTorrent went to hell decades ago.

      What is the advantage of qbit over it?

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        24 days ago

        I2p torrenting is supported by QBitTorrent not transmission. Transmission is simple, clean, lightweight and does the thing. QB is a million knobs dials and levers and comparatively heavier though not offensively so.

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        25 days ago

        My main point of concern is most of my indexes often ban versions of transmission but I never see that for qbit.

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      25 days ago

      I don’t often use BitTorrent at all, but Transmission is certainly the first client that comes to my mind, probably mainly because it came preinstalled with the distros I used when I was new to Linux (Debian and Ubuntu in the late 2000s). Not sure what advantages there are either way.

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      24 days ago

      Tried both, qBittorrent is much heavier on the CPU just sitting there idling. I do have a large amount of torrents, maybe over 200, and I didn’t expect to notice such a difference.

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      25 days ago

      It works great headless on my server. It does what it is supposed to do without any bloat that I would not use anyway.