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vlachen | 2 months ago

I left the high seas many years ago, but I'm down to seed for a cause.

What's the best torrent client nowadays?

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squarefoot|2 months ago

Qbittorrent, Transmission etc. The Transmission daemon can be installed headless with negligible system load on a vast number of devices, from Raspberry Pi-like and smaller SBCs to Linux/BSD NASes, then operated from remote through the web interface or a phone app.

josh_p|2 months ago

qbittorrent is still regarded as independent and safe, I think.

https://www.qbittorrent.org/

I’m still using it happily on windows/linux.

Don’t forget your vpn!

vlachen|2 months ago

That brings me to the next thing: Taking VPN suggestions. What's the best? I like secure.

Edited to remove being a moron.

LargoLasskhyfv|2 months ago

For desktop use from within Plasma/KDE I'm happy with Ktorrent. Feels very intuitive, and has no problem saturating a 1GB/s pipe, and doesn't slow the system down, while doing so.

(At least not mine, which are old and almost obsolete but have enough RAM)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTorrent / https://apps.kde.org/ktorrent/

Otherwise follow the links from there to qBitTorrent, or its mentions from other commenters here. Am not fond of transmission at all. Feels slow and sluggish in comparison.