• 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Whoever designed that seems like they have something against transmission lol.

    For me personally: it gets the job done, is allowed by most private trackers, fast and responsive, has a functional webui, and a very vast selection of third party apps (in addition to the cross platform first-party offering)

    It’s simplicity is kind of its selling point. Only real criticism I have is that it’s unfortunate some of the supported features aren’t accessible in the first party apps, and especially from the lightweight web interface

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, seems weird that simple “it downloads torrents” client gets a D. It gets the job done, is easy to figure out, and doesnt fuck about with features I would never touch. Maybe thats not enough for a power user but for me its exactly what I want.

      (but then why is Tixati in B, seems to have mostly downsides?)

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        1 year ago

        It’s gone the job done for me, for over 16 years now. It was the only real option for Mac computers back in University. I still use it to this day.

    • millie@lemmy.film
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’ve used qbittorrent, deluge, utorrent, and a number of other clients over the years. I greatly prefer transmission. I don’t need my torrent client to do anything but download and seed.

      I bet this person hates GIMP too.

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      1 year ago

      And Qbit also has network binding, which is the single most important feature for me as a VPN user.

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      1 year ago

      I use transmission because I can install it from Ubuntu repos and it runs from the command line in Ubuntu server.

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      1 year ago

      I dropped Transmission because I found it had severe performance problems with very large torrents. qBittorrent has been great.

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          1 year ago

          Neither did I until I tried running torrents > 100GB.

          There was some bug in the way it was using Java’s non-blocking IO and buffer classes that caused resource starvation with very large torrents.