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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.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago (3 children)

qBittorrent for over a decade now.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Same, qbittorrent on windows, rtorrent on seedbox.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use transmission. M1 compatible, open source and free

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

qBittorrent for me.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Since I discovered qbittorent, it has been the only thing I use for torrents

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

I'll just add that it's best to avoid current versions of BitTorrent/uTorrent/Vuze nowadays. (Vuze users should migrate to BiglyBT)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Qbittorrent. Before that, uTorrent. Prefer QBT interface. Tried i2p, but too tech-ignorant to make it work.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

qbittorrent because I love the search engine

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

qBittorret I've been using that for what feels like 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

qbittorrent on windows and Flud on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

qbittorrent with docker container.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

qBittorrent through the webui mostly. I have it installed on my NAS along with Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, etc.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

qBittorrent on Desktop, Transmission on server.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Deluged on my 24/7 running box and the gtk client to connect to it from my main PC.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

qBittorrent, for its search engine. It's fantastic. If it didn't have it though I'd use Transmission.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

deluge on linux

libretorrent on android

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I've been using Transmission on a headless Debian box running the web UI. Has worked well for me for over a decade.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deluge in a docker container. I run a media server and use the *arr apps to control things and deluge for the torrent app. I have it all behind a VPN. If the VPN goes down the entire network fails and is unable to connect any other way…. I do not trust a Killswitch and never would.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

qbittorrent. Tried i2p, but too tech-ignorant to make it work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

qBitorrent with Vuetorrent webui

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Déluge on my desktop, qbittorrent on my laptop and libretorrent on my android

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Deluge for my seedbox

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Transmission with OpenVPN, using the haugene/transmission-openvpn Docker image.

I mostly torrent via API using Sonarr and Radarr.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

qBittorrent but sometimes will use Seedr.cc

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Transmission since you can select files inside a torrent and prioritize them, or choose to not download some files.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Are there any torrent clients that don't have that? qbittorrent has it, and even the ancient utorrent had it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

qbittorrent-qt5, the default qt6 toolkit version looks a bit out of place with my Plasma theme.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ktorrent...on arch linux, btw. Support the KDE desktop! (echoes)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tixati for PC, Transmission for Mac is how I’ve had it for a while. No complaints!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

qBittorent in a docker. Rock solid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not the first person I see using it on docker. Why, tho? Any reason for it?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I use rtorrent + Flood. Nice setup if you're using a seedbox or otherwise running your torrents on a server.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

qBittorrent on my Windows boxes, Transmission on my MacBook. Gotta figure out how I'm gonna get my server set up though once I migrate it to openmediavault instead of Windows Server

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Radarr for movies, sonarr for shows, lidarr for music, nzbget as the downloader using prowlarr to manage my indexers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I was using Transmission on macOS but since I pay for Real Debrid to use it with Stremio, all my torrenting goes through there now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Flud on mobile and qBittorrent on PC

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Qbittorrent-nox. However I'm not completely sure if nox has support for a torrent creator tool like Qbittorrent does.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

KTorrent on KDE desktop on Linux. Transmission on other operating systems.

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