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[–] [email protected] 266 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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?)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Came here to defend transmission. Glad to see so many compatriots.

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[–] [email protected] 172 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Transmission is awesome because it's simple. It only does what you need and has the best UI for doing so.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm caught between the dual urges of "reject tierlist, embrace tradition" and "I've been sleeping on over a decade of FOSS torrent client development, maybe it's time to up my game".

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, someone is just using their torrent client as an F grade *arr and nbz360 solution.

All the "features" listed as Pros is just bloat.

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[–] [email protected] 164 points 1 year ago (2 children)

qBittorrent is indeed the best, but ranking Transmission so low just screams edgy kid trying to dislike the "normie" alternative.

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I feel like Transmission is getting unnecessary hate from this chart. It works very good, is stable, efficient...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

its the perfect client for arr or just simple torreting

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This triggers me. Transmission is perfect.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Transmission is good precisely because it does one thing and one thing really well - download torrents. No other crap, spam and non-related garbage required.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It does not do it very well (no sequential downloads, tracker scanning etc) and others like qBitTorrent also do not come with spam nor unrelated garbage, only μTorrent does that.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (4 children)

rTorrent “UNIX only” and c-tier. That says all you need to know about this list.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have seen this same image circulated for years. We need a new one because transmission in D tier is unacceptable.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

Yeah "it does nothing but downloads torrents" is the selling point. It's the reason I exclusively use Transmission.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Transmission as a server is very good and lightweight, specially if you pair it with something like Flood and the *arr apps

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago

This is out of date and Deluge is S tier.

It was rewritten and 2.0 came out in 2022 to address the slowdown issues when seeding a thousand plus torrents

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (8 children)

qbittorrent all the way :)

I love the built in http server for remote control. It's literally a clone of the desktop window with all the same controls/options.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

BiglyBT having a chat feature boggles me, why would anyone want that in their torrent client?

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This post made me nostalgic for the days when uTorrent was the shit. Man, how the mighty have fallen.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Transmission is probably one of the best clients to use in a headless setup. I think it usually ranks lower because it doesn't do a lot of things for you. What it does it does well, but nothing beyond that. Technically there is network binding, but by IP address and not interface. That means you have to script it which I know most people aren't going to want to do. As far as searching, again you have to rely on other services that probably do it better anyway. Still I rank it alongside qbittorrent. It just takes a less user or beginner friendly route.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Everyone sleeping on qBittorrent with the search plugin enabled. I never have to go to websites ever again, I can just pull from various domains with one search built into the program.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use transmission because the arr's handle all searching. I never even see the torrent client.

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

the arr's

Wait, is the whole *arr naming scheme a joke around the pirate slang word, and thus pirating?

How did I not realize this before???

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

yessir

sonarr, radarr, bazarr, lidarr, prowlarr and a bunch of other smaller ones.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why would I want those extra features in my torrent client? My transmission runs in a container and does its job

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I think quite a few of us use torrents on a remote server, so the thin app / remote client combo mode that deluge/transmission support puts them ahead of any other for consideration.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Transmission does have network binding. At least, i'm pretty sure it does. At least on Linux. It also has a cli interface and is a "full" client so it should at least be on par with rTorrent in that sense. It's not a great cli interface but it works.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I like Transmission, it's minimal and downloads torrents.

May I also mention aria2? I don't think it counts as a torrent client but it supports torrenting.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

rankings from /g/

everyone who is seriously replying to this: LOL

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I switched from rtorrent to Transmission. It's the only one with a ready-to-use web server so I can add and monitor my torrents remotely.

I would never run a torrent program on my main computer. Not that there's (more) risks, it just feels wrong to me.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Does qbittorrent not have a ready-to-use web server? I don't recall setting mine up

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd like to give PicoTorrent a shout-out on Windows. Small, lightweight, and open source.

https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A properly setup rTorrent is S tier.

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

Although rtorrent is a masterpiece, there hasn't been any development in years... of course it got behind and it's outdated now. Qbittorrent on the other hand really easy to work with and frequently updated.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Used qBittorrent for a long time now. No complaints. Ever since I've set up a home server, I almost exclusively use qBittorrent-nox now. Its qBittorrent, but headless! Runs all the time. Just use a web ui to access it. I can even run a reverse proxy and access it from afar!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'll never understand the FOSS mentality of "There's already a quality project out there with active development and most of the user-share. Perfect, so I'll utilize my off-time to create my own inferior competitor and fragment the users instead of contribute to the existing one".

I mean, I get it if the existing project maintainers start acting with shady interests - the threat of the fork can be a powerful tool. But it seems like many of these alt projects do it right out of the gate. Meanwhile, it took linux desktop how long to get a functional wifi driver out of the box??

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Likely what happens is that while the existing options are fine for the masses, a power user has a specific use case that is not covered by said options, so they create their own program to fit their specific needs. Eventually this new program evolves into something that is also useful to the masses, and that's how we get to where we are now with several good FOSS options.

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

has anyone ever heard of mottix?

I find it great, has a nice UI and it gets the job done.

also transmission is an S tier

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Seconded for Transmission. It's light on features because (as far as I know) it's the only ine in this list that's built to run unattended in a Docker container, with a web interface.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I switched from Transmission to qBittorrent a while ago, and I have some regrets: mainly that the qBittorrent web ui is extremely hard to navigate on mobile. Everything is tiny, and I can't zoom in and navigate around the page without right-click menus popping up

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