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Switched from uTorrent to QBitTorrent (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So a bunch of people in this subreddit told me that uTorrent was trash and to switch to QBitTorrent.

I didn't think much of it. How could one be so much better than the other? They're both just torrent downloaders.

Holy shit was I wrong. I don't even really understand what is happening, but downloading torrents on QBitTorrent is so, so, so much faster and I don't even understand how.

A movie downloads in basically seconds compared to 10 or 20 minutes on uTorrent.

Why is this? What is this magic? What makes QBitTorrent so much faster?

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Among other things, utorrent uses your CPU for some kind of crypto mining scheme.

No joke

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow, really? Source?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Classic cryptomining malware smh 😑