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
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.
Came here to defend transmission. Glad to see so many compatriots.
And Qbit also has network binding, which is the single most important feature for me as a VPN user.
I use transmission because I can install it from Ubuntu repos and it runs from the command line in Ubuntu server.
I dropped Transmission because I found it had severe performance problems with very large torrents. qBittorrent has been great.
Never had an issue with anything
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.
I feel like Transmission is getting unnecessary hate from this chart. It works very good, is stable, efficient…
The only downside is no BEP 52 support.
It’s lthe only one I’d use but…
It really is lacking basic functionality. Hell, o can’t even order torrents that are currently running by size or % done, which would be really helpful if it existed
Also, I don’t think it’s actively developed anymore, I haven’t seen an update in its functionality in at least 5 years, maybe even 10
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Not fud, I personally haven’t seen any update since at least the last 5 years. If there are updates then I’ll be pissed with Ubuntu for sticking with the 5-10 year old version
This triggers me. Transmission is perfect.
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.
I use it specifically for headless because of the convenience of many pre-made docker containers set up to use a VPN with Transmission.
I have seen this same image circulated for years. We need a new one because transmission in D tier is unacceptable.
Transmission used to be my preferred app hands down but recent updates have negatively impacted its performance on my end. If all it needs to do is download torrents, why does it now sometimes seem incapable of connecting to a given (popular) swarm ?
Particularly unfortunate is that once it does connect, the download speed has now become arbitrary: it keeps alternating between ‘incredibly fast’ and ‘surprisingly slow’ and takes three or four times as long to complete. I’ve become so exasperated with it that I’ve been forced to move on (deluge instantly connects and consistently downloads at five times the speed).
Transmission as a server is very good and lightweight, specially if you pair it with something like Flood and the *arr apps
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
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.
Is there an equivalent to “thin client” mode of Deluge, where you can connect the desktop version to a server and control it as if it was a local install, but the server does all the legwork?
It really makes the whole thing seamless.
That would require installing client software though, no?
Qbit is just a web app accessible from anything with a browser. (I keep mine behind a vpn for auth, but it’s got http form based password auth aswell.)
It does, but it feels more integrated. Clicking a magnet link or opening a torrent file is handled natively by the OS and pass it over to the native app, which talks to the Deluge server if used in thin client mode. It’s really neat.
Yes, this is one of the main things I love Deluge for.
Fair.
I rarely manage torrent files/links anymore. I tend to do manual searches via Prowlarr and just use the interface to monitor progress.
Except the ability to create torrents.
That’s one of the only things you can’t do via the web app, but there is a ‘torrent creator’ under the ‘tools’ menu. I haven’t used it though so I can’t really say how good it is.
This post made me nostalgic for the days when uTorrent was the shit. Man, how the mighty have fallen.
Qbit has been around almost as long and has almost always been better. Qbit got apl the nostalgia i need lol
BiglyBT having a chat feature boggles me, why would anyone want that in their torrent client?
To get in those private trackers
Also once in, it’s used for automatic downloads. So you immediately get the latest episodes of your shows.
I believe Tixati also has a chat feature
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.
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.
Does qbittorrent not have a ready-to-use web server? I don’t recall setting mine up
Problem with that it’s that it has Qt as dependency, therefore it’s a bit of a hassle to run in a headless machine.
But it’s still a very solid option.
I run mine in a docker container on a headless machine!
Yeah, that’s great.
Good web UI and great client apps for multiple OS.
Why would I want those extra features in my torrent client? My transmission runs in a container and does its job
rankings from /g/
everyone who is seriously replying to this: LOL
What’s g?
4channel’s Technology board
https://boards.4channel.org/g/Technology section of 4chan.
I believe it is the gaming board from 4chan
Toxicity aside some of the generals on there are very informative
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.
Same. I never needed those bell & whistles from other apps and found Transmission to get the job done.
