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.
GeekFTW ( @GeekFTW@kbin.social ) 68•1 year agoqBittorrent for over a decade now.
Vitaly ( @Vitaly@feddit.uk ) 22•1 year agoThe best client ever
GeekFTW ( @GeekFTW@kbin.social ) 23•1 year agoYep. 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
Cevilia (she/they/…) ( @Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•1 year agoSame 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.
Viveroz ( @Viveroz@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English19•1 year agoSince I discovered qbittorent, it has been the only thing I use for torrents
Brickfrog ( @brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English15•1 year agoIf 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!
arrgh ( @arrgh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English15•1 year agoQbittorrent. Before that, uTorrent. Prefer QBT interface. Tried i2p, but too tech-ignorant to make it work.
navigatron ( @navigatron@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year agoi2p 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.
B3_CHAD ( @B3_CHAD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English14•1 year agoqbittorrent on windows and Flud on my phone.
win95 ( @win95@lemmy.zip ) English10•1 year agoqbittorrent because I love the search engine
doubledgedsoul ( @doubledgedsoul@lemm.ee ) English10•1 year agoDeluge
dewritoninja ( @dewritoninja@pawb.social ) English1•1 year agoI started using it on my desktop the day qbittorrent decided to just randomly die and refused to be reinstalled
crystalshower ( @crystalshower@lemmy.ml ) English9•1 year agoqbittorrent with docker container.
backshift0022 ( @backshift0022@lemm.ee ) English8•1 year agoqBittorrent, for its search engine. It’s fantastic. If it didn’t have it though I’d use Transmission.
MadCybertist ( @MadCybertist@kbin.social ) 8•1 year agoDeluge 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.
nani8ot ( @nani8ot@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year agoHow did you make sure that the internet can only be reached through the VPN?
arrgh ( @arrgh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English6•1 year agoqbittorrent. Tried i2p, but too tech-ignorant to make it work.
MetalHead77 ( @MetalHead77@lemmy.ml ) English6•1 year agoI’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.
DirtyDan ( @DirtyDan@kbin.social ) 5•1 year agoqBittorrent but sometimes will use Seedr.cc
rho50 ( @rho50@lemmy.nz ) English5•1 year agoTransmission with OpenVPN, using the haugene/transmission-openvpn Docker image.
I mostly torrent via API using Sonarr and Radarr.
Crunziel ( @crunziel@lemmy.id ) English5•1 year agoDeluge for my seedbox