• amorpheus@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Tried both, qBittorrent is much heavier on the CPU just sitting there idling. I do have a large amount of torrents, maybe over 200, and I didn’t expect to notice such a difference.

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      20 hours ago

      It works great headless on my server. It does what it is supposed to do without any bloat that I would not use anyway.

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          For things like this, the system you leave running the client all the time isn’t always the system you actually sit down and use. So it’s common for there to be a webUI, waypiping the GUI, or good old fashioned CLI

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          4 hours ago

          Do your mean how I use it? With a remote client and other services use the RPC API. How to get used to it? Being a lifelong nerd?

    • Vegan_Joe@anarchist.nexus
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      It’s lightweight, open source, and does exactly what it’s supposed to.

      I kind of legacyed my way into it. It was the first thing I grabbed after uTorrent went to hell decades ago.

      What is the advantage of qbit over it?

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
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        I2p torrenting is supported by QBitTorrent not transmission. Transmission is simple, clean, lightweight and does the thing. QB is a million knobs dials and levers and comparatively heavier though not offensively so.

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        My main point of concern is most of my indexes often ban versions of transmission but I never see that for qbit.

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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      I don’t often use BitTorrent at all, but Transmission is certainly the first client that comes to my mind, probably mainly because it came preinstalled with the distros I used when I was new to Linux (Debian and Ubuntu in the late 2000s). Not sure what advantages there are either way.