I'm making a thread about this because I need to talk about several related things.
TL:DR: qBittorent is acting weird, wiki is not helpful, need alternative.
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So I've been using qBittorrent for a long while now but I've recently noticed a strange behavior. It seems that active torrents, when completed, are still downloading... something, but I don't know what. qB's counters are all at 0 but both Rainmeter and the task manager can see the activity clear as day. So the first question is: is this normal behavior for the client/ for clients in general? Because even though I have an overkill connection (120/30) I'm still seeing some possible slowdowns due to this. I'm also not seeing a single person talking about this on the qB forums so maybe it is normal, but still kind of annoying nonetheless.
So I went hunting for other clients to try. I went to the InstallGentoo recommended software list to check the alternatives (Windows list btw). However, it looks like said list has become not so desirable. Looking at each entry, here are my comments: Halite - Is only an alpha build and hasn't been updated for 2 years now. Dead? qBittorent - What I use right now because it was recommended there. Seems to have a strange behavior. Deluge - NOT accepted on all trackers after a controversy some time ago after it was found this client had an unusually high rate of defective transfers needing to re-download parts more than other p2p clients. Still, considered as possible choice. Transmission-QT - Dead as dead can be. Sourceforge page gone. Official Transmission lists it as abandoned. uTorrent 2.2.1 - Completely outdated.
So I went and tried to look for yet another alternative. I want to find a torrent client that is: A. Windows compatible (don't judge, I need it to game) B. Open source and free (not as common as you'd think) C. Still actively supported and updated (again, not that common).
And so, the only other alternative that I managed to find is: FrostWire
Yes. Fucking FrostWire.
I remember using that when Gnutella was still a thing. When they put version 5 out, which dropped the Gnutella network, I dropped the client, as back then I just wasn't using torrents like now. So the question is, is it good? Hell, is there still another alternative that I missed? And did Deluge ever fix that issue? Because all I have are these two as alternatives to qB.
Transmission, download the latest stable nightly build.
Tyler Butler
Transmission-GTK is usable. Pig disgusting GTK3, but usable.
Lucas Powell
Yes. Transmission has a web UI by default. You can also use a terminal client.
Henry Green
Wah are you sure its not just your "windows home 10" device serving windows updates to other windowfags?
Install gentoo/arch or solus then download qBittorent linux
and you can also dualboot then install paragon extfs to access your pizzaporn.
Nathaniel Perez
Transmission Remote GUI on Windows is ace, but on Linux, it needs work.
Levi Torres
Most of the time i use rtorrent, but if i want more advanced shit i use transmission-gtk, not that rtorrent doesnt support those features but i dont want to mess with it, I am sick of learning, need rest.
I actually prefer Transmission-GTK's minimal UI but I'm not a torrent power user.
Logan Robinson
1 year and 3 months, to be exact. Don't let the version number fool ya, it's a stable and complete piece of software. Lots of free software projects are stuck in eternal alpha/0.x version hell, even if the actual code is more mature than most commercial software released and sold out there.
Not outdated, but pretty linux-specific.
Christopher Taylor
Use Deluge? But torrenting is dying, apart from private tracks. We need something, IPFS is still too young, irc is dead too.
Jayden Mitchell
READ MORE THAN ONE SENTENCE OF THE FUCKING OP YOU FUCKING RETARD REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
flauting basic features all (including ut221) clients have, begging for donations, dubious chat features. "no bullshit" for realz you guyz.
deluge is nice, the sluggish ui problems got a bit better, but still pure suffering if you run thuosands of torrents.
No you faggots, it got merged into the main tree years ago. The windows binaries now ship with qt frontend by default, on linux, simply apt-get install transmission-qt
Carter Brooks
Is your remark also applying to the curses client? Because rtorrent is full of crashes and is now abandonware.
Luis Murphy
you fucking WOT
Luke Morgan
What a surprise!
Colton Davis
No sorry, I lack the intrest in running Loonix on a computer that's used for games and other stuff that needs Windows.
Aaron Cox
This is why we can't have nice, well-seeded things.
Lincoln Moore
rTorrent indeed kinda blows, was using it for a long time after it started sucking out of habit. I'm using transmission now, with ~4k torrents in it.
Note that windows vs linux is immaterial, as most clients run great on both (except ut being windows only).
That said, ut221 is still decent if you're a winfag.
Aaron Wright
Old uTorrent versions actually run very nicely under Wine.
Elijah Smith
using Deluge because IT JUST WORKS.
Dylan Myers
iIf space was free I would have seeded more.
But it doesn't, so older torrents have to make way for newer ones.
I do seed, though.
Jacob Stewart
You fucking nigger a 4TB hard drive costs $150. That is so fucking cheap it's incredulous you'd even consider whining about storage costs. Oh wait, let me guess, the smallest hard drive you've ever had in a personal computer was 500GB or so?
Anthony Russell
That, and USA != world.
Elijah Brooks
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Caleb Rogers
shiggy
Ian Parker
qBittorrent seems to be fine to me, otherwise use as said, oh wait >Windows compatible.
Cameron Mitchell
Check your first world privilege.
Adrian Brooks
Given its lack of GUI, I wonder if rtorrent runs well under the newfangled linux compatibility layer on Windows 10.
Eli Brooks
This is a sign of the Common Tard, and yes it triggers me.
