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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.

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[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

qBittorrent for over a decade now.

[–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Viveroz@lemmy.fmhy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Since I discovered qbittorent, it has been the only thing I use for torrents

[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] arrgh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] navigatron 2 points 1 year ago

i2p 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@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

qbittorrent on windows and Flud on my phone.

[–] doubledgedsoul@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dewritoninja@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] win95@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

qbittorrent because I love the search engine

[–] crystalshower@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

qbittorrent with docker container.

[–] MadCybertist@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deluge 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@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

How did you make sure that the internet can only be reached through the VPN?

[–] backshift0022@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

qBittorrent, for its search engine. It's fantastic. If it didn't have it though I'd use Transmission.

[–] arrgh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

qbittorrent. Tried i2p, but too tech-ignorant to make it work.

[–] MetalHead77@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 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.

[–] dewritoninja@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

Déluge on my desktop, qbittorrent on my laptop and libretorrent on my android

[–] rho50@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago

Transmission with OpenVPN, using the haugene/transmission-openvpn Docker image.

I mostly torrent via API using Sonarr and Radarr.

[–] PaupersSerenade 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tixati for PC, Transmission for Mac is how I’ve had it for a while. No complaints!

[–] AcidTwang@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Also been using Tixati for years now. Does the job.

[–] airbussy@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Can't help but be a little anxious about it being closed-source, but it a really good program still

[–] bender@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what ive decided to go with, i really like it.

[–] DirtyDan@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

qBittorrent but sometimes will use Seedr.cc

[–] crunziel@lemmy.id 5 points 1 year ago

Deluge for my seedbox

[–] mccord@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

qbittorrent-qt5, the default qt6 toolkit version looks a bit out of place with my Plasma theme.

[–] TheLazurus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

qBittorrent on my Windows boxes, Transmission on my MacBook. Gotta figure out how I'm gonna get my server set up though once I migrate it to openmediavault instead of Windows Server

[–] variants@possumpat.io 4 points 1 year ago

Radarr for movies, sonarr for shows, lidarr for music, nzbget as the downloader using prowlarr to manage my indexers

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago

Transmission since you can select files inside a torrent and prioritize them, or choose to not download some files.

[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use rtorrent + Flood. Nice setup if you're using a seedbox or otherwise running your torrents on a server.

[–] supervent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I use mldonkey, because it have ed2k/kad network too and it is enough for me. Just one program, one daemon.

[–] willnever_fadeaway@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flud on mobile and qBittorrent on PC

[–] rho50@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

Flud is great! One of my most missed apps since moving to iOS.

[–] Freeprince@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Qbittorrent enhanced edition

[–] JTR@lemmings.basic-domain.com 2 points 1 year ago

My favorite used to be torrentflux, these days I mostly use transmission

[–] djshadow@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

rTorrent with the Flood UI.

[–] mobius@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

aria2, a terminal client because I don’t want to clutter my screen area with apps that have limited U and little interaction with me.

[–] dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Sad i had to scroll this far to see this. Great client.

[–] Toribor@corndog.uk 2 points 1 year ago

qBittorent but I typically access it using Flood as a frontend unless I need advanced features that aren't available in the Flood UI.

[–] landordragen@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I was using Transmission on macOS but since I pay for Real Debrid to use it with Stremio, all my torrenting goes through there now.

[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tribler.

Tribler is an open source decentralized BitTorrent client which allows anonymous peer-to-peer by default. Tribler is based on the BitTorrent protocol and uses an overlay network for content searching

[–] navigatron 1 points 1 year ago

Love me some DHT! The dht has saved some of my trackerless quests on many occasions.

[–] sickday@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use a self hosted transmission docker container. The web ui is decent

[–] kelvinjps 1 points 1 year ago

qbitorrent, sometimes transmission(like how simple is) and libretorrent for android, libretorrent is so good man.

[–] frayans@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Mainly LibreTorrent on Android since I only pirate music and anime.

[–] djshadow@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

rTorrent with the Flood UI.

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