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I'm spinning up a new seedbox and wanted to know what is everyone using nowadays? I was using deluge via the thick client and rutorrent previously. Are they still king? edit: I should have also mentioned that I plan on running this server headless so I will need to be able to access it via a thin client or a web browser

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[–] droolio@feddit.uk 1 points 33 minutes ago

BiglyBT for manual dls on desktop, qBittorrent with the arrs

[–] spokendotcpp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 3 points 4 hours ago

At least there's one thing these Lemmy people agree with me on.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

qbittorrent on PC and libretorrent on Android.

[–] Xed@lemm.ee 8 points 5 hours ago

I’m currently using Transmission again

[–] Grostleton@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

qbit on pc, flud on android

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 hours ago

Random semi-related thought. I'm going through the comparison of BitTorrent clients page on Wikipedia and it's amazing how many clients end up as Adware.

[–] hunt4peas@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 hours ago

qBittorent for Windows and LibreTorrent for Android.

[–] bikooo2@r.nf 9 points 9 hours ago

Qbittorrent, Transmission and Ktorrent the Last two When some updates breaks Qbittorrent

[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I keep recommending Tribler and I don't know why it's not more popular. Anything wrong with it?

[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 hours ago

I appreciate the ability for the tor-like layered routing with tribler. Getting the headless UI set up is annoying, though.

[–] monstoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 11 points 15 hours ago

+1 for qBittorrent. I used to be a Deluge fan, but qBittorrent seems more performant and feature-packed.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 35 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Still qbittorrent. Docker container with web UI makes it trivial.

[–] Xianshi@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

With Vuetorrent for a nice mobile ui

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 7 points 17 hours ago

transmission in docker container on NAS, with dedicated IP that gets forced through VPN on my router

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

qBittorrent is probably the most commonly used client. Transmission is another popular option, especially among macOS users, since it has a familiar design and feels more native.

rTorrent is great if you want a CLI app, and ruTorrent offers a web frontend. Another option that you can run on a server is Deluge.

You can control qBittorrent from Android using qBitController or from iOS using qBitControl (you can get it from AltStore after adding the Michael-128 repo). Transdroid supports other clients as well, and it's my personal favorite. If you want to torrent on the Android device itself, check out LibreTorrent. For iOS, use iTorrent (also available on AltStore).

If you already plan on self-hosting, or have root access on your seed box (or some other way of installing applications/deploying Docker containers), I also recommend setting up bitmagnet. It's basically your own torrent indexer and search engine. It can also integrate with your *arr applications.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Do you use altstore? Have you tried livecontainer to avoid the 3 app limit?

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago

I don't think that applies when using the EU version and Apple's new sideloading framework. But I don't know, since I only have 1 app sideloaded right now.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Transmission is my favorite design-wise on macOS but I wish it had i2p support.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I never even realized that Transmission doesn't support it. I just have I2P set up on my seedbox (but it typically requires root access, so unfortunately not everyone can replicate this). I would imagine it's pretty flaky on macOS though? I'm pretty sure the vast majority of I2P users run Linux, so the macOS client probably doesn't get as much development and attention.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 2 hours ago

I don’t know why i2p would be flaky on macOS. I run i2pd (hate Java) on Linux and macOS and it’s functionally the same.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 1 day ago

qBittorrent and rtorrent are very popular.

[–] lindicks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 20 hours ago

arch-qbittorrentvpn docker container, because it was the easiest to set up on my TrueNAS home server.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I've had a poor experience with Deluge, a bug report completely disregarded years ago as I wasn't able to provide (very technical) details to the developers without some assistance, which they smugly refused to provide (I don't act entitled). I then stumbled upon a post where one of them discussed the reason why they wouldn't add workarounds in the installer as qBittorrent did (firewall exception and a couple of other things I can't recall right now), their reasoning and their wording struck me as strongly ideological, and it made me uneasy. I've had a similar experience with Affinity developers who (again, by way of ideology) refused to add an "interface scale" parameter to their programs, adamant on letting the OS handle the scaling, even though I couldn't change my OS scale because it messed up other programs. Their response was "it's the other program's fault". Very helpful. 👍🏼

Anyway, I was trying to say I don't like Deluge. To answer your question I know it runs via a variety of interfaces so I wouldn't be surprised it's your best bet. I personally use qBittorrent .

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Deluge always seems so underrepresented, but as far as I know it's never had a version compromised with malware like some of the other popular clients. It also performs great when you are seeding over 1000 torrents as long as you upgrade to version two.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Better to use the underrepresented torrent clients. They have the least chance of enshittification.

looks at µTorrent

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

qBittorrent. With a quick UI switch to vuetorrent for the tablet. LXC bound to a bridge thats VPN connected.

[–] Xianshi@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

The is the way

[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 21 hours ago

On a headless seedbox Deluge/ruTorrent/Transmission are still reliable, most of the paid seedbox services still default with those.

qBittorrent is hugely popular on the desktop front and has been getting more popular as a headless client now that the web ui has improved, also look into qbittorrent-nox if you don't have a gui to do initial setup with.

[–] kirby@feddit.it 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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[–] eru@mouse.chitanda.moe 5 points 1 day ago

transmission

[–] TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I used transmission for years, but the larger my library got the more issues I had. Currently using Qbit and loving the categories for easier management, especially with the *arr suite.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

Interesting. It just gets bloated with magnets?

[–] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I'm a much bigger fan of the deluge thin client, personally.

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[–] KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hear people use the search function of QBitTorrent tied to VPN tunnel. Basic, but it works

[–] Xianshi@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

If you add jackett and set it up it will search all of your indexers at once.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 hours ago

rTorrent with Flood front end.

My only complaint so far is being unable to reach the rTorrent TUI when it's running headless. It otherwise works great.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago
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