Transmission is awesome because it’s simple. It only does what you need and has the best UI for doing so.
I’m caught between the dual urges of “reject tierlist, embrace tradition” and “I’ve been sleeping on over a decade of FOSS torrent client development, maybe it’s time to up my game”.
I will say, as someone who used rTorrent some time ago to automate torrent downloading and whatnot, it was awesome. I’m glad to see it still going and gaining popularity.
Stable software doing its job out of the way is what I want.
Given the community we’re in, majority of us are power users and transmission is just way too feature light for most of us
if the community we’re in puts rtorrent in C tier because it’s “UNIX only” then you and I have a different meaning of “power users”.
Given I was replying to a comment in a totally different context, sure, whatever floats your boat.
Being a power user does not automatically mean you need to use Linux. Not trying to defend any other OS out there, just don’t like this gate keeping attitude.
Being a sports car enthusiast does not automatically mean I hate Lamborghini because I own a Ferrari.
You are totally right, what I mean is you don’t have to use Linux to be a power user, but despise it it’s not a power user attitude.
CLI controls are the ultimate power user feature :)
If you need extra features you use extra programs which are tailored to those features. Unix philosophy.
I’m supposed to use an extra program to download a torrent in sequential order?
Depends why you want it. If you want it to reduce fragmentarion, then just enable fallocate. If you want it to download files in sequence, then XML RPC. If you want file to be downloaded in very inefficient way, then be patient.
Or, I just right click and select sequential download so I can start watching a movie immediately. This logic of breaking everything down into the tiniest possible bits is how we ended up with ridiculousness like the lpad debacle.
Well, torrent client should leech and seed very fast and very efficient, watching videos is not on this list. XMLRPC also makes it convenient and expandable.
And sequential downloads are bad for swarm, please don’t do this.
Just because your use case is different from others does not invalidate all other use cases.
Also, there’s a reason no clients support sequential download as a default option. Having the very occasional download where I would like to start watching immediately upon starting the download is not going to break the swarm, or even affect it.
And if you wanna put on your naughty shoes you can theme transmission just drag flood-ui files in and tada
qBittorrent is indeed the best, but ranking Transmission so low just screams edgy kid trying to dislike the “normie” alternative.
I feel like Transmission is getting unnecessary hate from this chart. It works very good, is stable, efficient…
its the perfect client for arr or just simple torreting
I disagree, qbitorrent is better. Had problems with transmission in my arr docker VM.
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
Hell, o can’t even order torrents that are currently running by size or % done, which would be really helpful if it existed
Alright I’ll stick with qbittorent
The only downside is no BEP 52 support.
This triggers me. Transmission is perfect.
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Transmission is good precisely because it does one thing and one thing really well - download torrents. No other crap, spam and non-related garbage required.
It does not do it very well (no sequential downloads, tracker scanning etc) and others like qBitTorrent also do not come with spam nor unrelated garbage, only μTorrent does that.
I get what you mean, but none of those downsides to Transmission are just “downloads torrents”. So yes, it does do that very well, outside of special circumstances…
It always downloads everything at the same time and it doesn’t find extra trackers, both cause it to download worse.
So no, it doesn’t actually do that one thing very well.
rTorrent “UNIX only” and c-tier. That says all you need to know about this list.
UNIX only has vague meaning. BSD is true UNIX, Darwin is butchered UNIX, Windows has POSIX compatibility enviroment(cygwin), Linux is POSIX.
That was my point. Also BSD is not true Unix, it is Unix-like. Only Unix is Unix.
The original BSD is based on Unix so you could say it’s “true Unix”, but modern BSD systems has modified the source code so much that almost every code is now more different original Unix so you could say it’s “Unix-like”.
Illumos in the other hand is actually true Unix as it’s based on Solaris which is based on Unix System V.
MacOS is UNIX certified https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
I have seen this same image circulated for years. We need a new one because transmission in D tier is unacceptable.
Yeah “it does nothing but downloads torrents” is the selling point. It’s the reason I exclusively use Transmission.
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
very bad at stuff like having set seed times before removing torrent, which is nice with qbittorrent
I’ve had an issue on a recent install in an LXC where it consumed more memory over time until a reboot. It hasn’t really been an issue yet, but I will have to investigate and maybe switch to another webgui client.
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.
Fair.
I rarely manage torrent files/links anymore. I tend to do manual searches via Prowlarr and just use the interface to monitor progress.
Yes, this is one of the main things I love Deluge for.
I dunno maybe it’s just gimmicky but it feels so nice to have a desktop app over and webui that still uses the server. I use Deluge for only that reason
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.
BiglyBT having a chat feature boggles me, why would anyone want that in their torrent client?
To get in those private trackers
Pretty much. It’s the “hey we’ve been chatting for a while now. Happen to have an invite?”
Also once in, it’s used for automatic downloads. So you immediately get the latest episodes of your shows.
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
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.
Everyone sleeping on qBittorrent with the search plugin enabled. I never have to go to websites ever again, I can just pull from various domains with one search built into the program.
I use transmission because the arr’s handle all searching. I never even see the torrent client.
the arr’s
Wait, is the whole *arr naming scheme a joke around the pirate slang word, and thus pirating?
How did I not realize this before???
yessir
sonarr, radarr, bazarr, lidarr, prowlarr and a bunch of other smaller ones.
yessaar
im just waiting for a Mangarr that actually works, currently run FMD in a container.
Yes but oftentimes is better to check the comments for issues/procedures
Can still visit the download page from there
never got it working for me personally, but then again I have *arr apps so dont need it anywah
Why would I want those extra features in my torrent client? My transmission runs in a container and does its job
Yep my other packages manage everything else, transmission is rarely logged into on the GUI side. KISS
Just the option to not have the new torrent dialog pop up every time is reason enough for me. And just proper sorting. And quick content overview.
Transmission is considered the worst. Blocked by most people and private trackers.
My private tracker has multiple transmission versions on their approved list 🤷♂️
