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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I use biglybt, i know the ui isn't great but the features make up for it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Qbittorrent via a container and web UI on my NAS, lets me use it as a backend for *arrs as well as anything else, just have tag based directories for it so Software goes into one folder and TV movies etc in their respective folders.

I personally like the setup a lot since I can always be a seeder even well after my ratio is hit.

slskd hooked up to this as well to share everything music wise, gives me a nice way to reconcile stuff Lidarr can't find and shares it all back for anyone to browse so hopefully helps someone downloadv something they're searching for a FLAC of

nzb360 on Android for management as needed, it hooks into Qbittorrent easily and gives me a nice place to do some quicker tasks for my overall infra

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Good ol' rtorrent never dissapoints. For when I want something with a webui, I have a qflood container that I extracted from its old *arr setup to more generalistic usage.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’ve been using Transmission for many years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I've got Transmission on my NAS and use Transmission-remote(Linux and android) for the client. Simple, easy to setup and it just works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

iblocklist and transmission name a better team

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

BiglyBT for manual dls on desktop, qBittorrent with the arrs

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

qbittorrent on PC and libretorrent on Android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Glad to see I'm not the only one who torrents on mobile

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I usually do smaller things when on mobile, both due to Storage and Data Usage considerations. For bigger stuff I mainly use my PC and qbittorrent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

qbit on pc, flud on android

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I’m currently using Transmission again

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I like that they were using ALL CAPS and you're using all lowercase.

qBittorrent

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

qBittorent for Windows and LibreTorrent for Android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I use almost the same setup, except I don't use Windows on Desktop.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The most recent release is headless and only has a web front end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 .

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

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

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