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
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        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

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I had a problem with qbittorrent years ago with a DNS leak but once I solved that no issues. I can’t remember what the problem was but I am almost certain it was user config related and not program related.

    • Cevilia (she/they/…)
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      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.

  • Kintsugi
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    321 year ago

    I use transmission. M1 compatible, open source and free

  • Brickfrog
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    1 year ago

    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)

  • @[email protected]
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    201 year ago

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

    • Acid
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      11 year ago

      this is me also, I’ve used transmission for over a decade across three operating systems it’s incredibly simple to get going but relatively powerful if you need it to be.

  • @[email protected]
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    171 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]
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      11 year ago

      I guess the search engine works well? Does it find safe torrents (out there such a thing as safe torrents?)?

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        You need to add your own “plugins” (sources) which sites you wanna search, and you’ll still get result info to choose which torrent you want to download. You need to have python installed (don’t worry, it’s available on windows and mac as well) and you can find a list of plugins and more instructions here

  • cmat273
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    131 year ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I’m actually using qBittorrent on my server, is Transmission better in some cases? Never really checked it out.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I don’t remember the exact reason, but it was long time ago, so I’m not sure if that issue is even still relevant/fixed on qBit. So I used transmission on my Debian box. In a nutshell they’re both torrent clients that offer very similar functionality. It’s merely a preference thing

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I started using it on my desktop the day qbittorrent decided to just randomly die and refused to be reinstalled