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266 points

Whoever designed that seems like they have something against transmission lol.

For me personally: it gets the job done, is allowed by most private trackers, fast and responsive, has a functional webui, and a very vast selection of third party apps (in addition to the cross platform first-party offering)

It’s simplicity is kind of its selling point. Only real criticism I have is that it’s unfortunate some of the supported features aren’t accessible in the first party apps, and especially from the lightweight web interface

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Yeah, seems weird that simple “it downloads torrents” client gets a D. It gets the job done, is easy to figure out, and doesnt fuck about with features I would never touch. Maybe thats not enough for a power user but for me its exactly what I want.

(but then why is Tixati in B, seems to have mostly downsides?)

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(but then why is Tixati in B, seems to have mostly downsides?)

You need to read it again more carefully. Lightweight, highly customisable and feature-rich is why it is that high.

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I guess I just don’t really know what feature-rich means in this context but being proprietary, not fully cross platform, and banned on most private trackers seems like huge downsides for power users compared to customization, built in search, and integrated chat.

I get this chart probably not made for people like me in mind though.

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7 points

banned on most private trackers

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It’s gone the job done for me, for over 16 years now. It was the only real option for Mac computers back in University. I still use it to this day.

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4 points

They say “barely lacks any features” which I think they mean it’s full featured. I feel like Transmission and rTorrent are good clients for their niche though.

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3 points

I dropped Transmission because I found it had severe performance problems with very large torrents. qBittorrent has been great.

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6 points

Never had an issue with anything

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Neither did I until I tried running torrents > 100GB.

There was some bug in the way it was using Java’s non-blocking IO and buffer classes that caused resource starvation with very large torrents.

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30 points

Yeah, I’ve used qbittorrent, deluge, utorrent, and a number of other clients over the years. I greatly prefer transmission. I don’t need my torrent client to do anything but download and seed.

I bet this person hates GIMP too.

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18 points

Came here to defend transmission. Glad to see so many compatriots.

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7 points

And Qbit also has network binding, which is the single most important feature for me as a VPN user.

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5 points

I use transmission because I can install it from Ubuntu repos and it runs from the command line in Ubuntu server.

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6 points

It made by /g/, what could you asked for, haha

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