Hi, ive been pirating stuff for a bit and I currently use Picotorrent, but I wanted to know what everyone else uses to see if there is a better option.
qBittorrent for over a decade now.
The best client ever
Yep. The day µTorrent did their adware/crypto/whatever the fuck it was shit happened more than once, I immediately grabbed qBittorrent and never wanted to look back. Only once did I have a problem with it and that was an issue between it and Sonarr which I resolved by just downgrading qBittorrent for awhile lol
I had a problem with qbittorrent years ago with a DNS leak but once I solved that no issues. I can’t remember what the problem was but I am almost certain it was user config related and not program related.
Same, qbittorrent on windows, rtorrent on seedbox.
Same here. I occasionally try other clients, but qB is the one I always end up going back to, mostly because it automagically blocks hosts that send garbage.
I use transmission. M1 compatible, open source and free
Does using ports on transmission do anything?
Since I discovered qbittorent, it has been the only thing I use for torrents
qBittorrent for me.
If PicoTorrent meets your needs then you’re fine, it’s a great torrent client.
I tend to use qBittorrent, Deluge, rTorrent/ruTorrent.
Below is the list of desktop/server torrent clients people have mentioned over on the old subreddit.
- BiglyBT
- BitTorrent Classic / uTorrent Classic (current versions are essentially the same client nowadays)
- or uTorrent 2.2.1 (try here)
- BitTorrent Web / uTorrent Web
- Deluge
- Exatorrent
- FrostWire
- JSTorrent
- KTorrent
- PicoTorrent
- Porla
- qBittorrent
- rTorrent
- Tixati
- Transmission
- Tribler
- Vuze
- WebTorrent Desktop
I’ll just add that it’s best to avoid current versions of BitTorrent/uTorrent/Vuze nowadays. (Vuze users should migrate to BiglyBT)
Thanks!
Qbittorrent. Before that, uTorrent. Prefer QBT interface. Tried i2p, but too tech-ignorant to make it work.
i2p is not a torrent client - but have no fear, you’re not missing much. i2p torrenting is slowwww (think gigs per day) and generally doesn’t have much.
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this is me also, I’ve used transmission for over a decade across three operating systems it’s incredibly simple to get going but relatively powerful if you need it to be.
I’ve been using Qbittorrent for as long as I can remember. It’s been very reliable and I don’t see a reason to change.
qbittorrent because I love the search engine
I guess the search engine works well? Does it find safe torrents (out there such a thing as safe torrents?)?
You need to add your own “plugins” (sources) which sites you wanna search, and you’ll still get result info to choose which torrent you want to download. You need to have python installed (don’t worry, it’s available on windows and mac as well) and you can find a list of plugins and more instructions here
qBittorret I’ve been using that for what feels like 10 years.
qbittorrent on windows and Flud on my phone.
Deluge
I started using it on my desktop the day qbittorrent decided to just randomly die and refused to be reinstalled
qbittorrent with docker container.
qBittorrent on Desktop, Transmission on server.
I’m actually using qBittorrent on my server, is Transmission better in some cases? Never really checked it out.
I don’t remember the exact reason, but it was long time ago, so I’m not sure if that issue is even still relevant/fixed on qBit. So I used transmission on my Debian box. In a nutshell they’re both torrent clients that offer very similar functionality. It’s merely a preference thing
qBittorrent through the webui mostly. I have it installed on my NAS along with Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, etc.
