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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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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(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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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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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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6 points

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

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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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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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172 points

Transmission is awesome because it’s simple. It only does what you need and has the best UI for doing so.

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28 points

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”.

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23 points

Nah, someone is just using their torrent client as an F grade *arr and nbz360 solution.

All the “features” listed as Pros is just bloat.

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8 points

Yeah, I’m comfy with my torrent workflow as it is. I don’t pirate enough volume to make it worth the time to revise something I spend 0.0006% of my overall time on.

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4 points

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.

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11 points

Given the community we’re in, majority of us are power users and transmission is just way too feature light for most of us

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29 points

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”.

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3 points

Given I was replying to a comment in a totally different context, sure, whatever floats your boat.

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2 points

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.

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6 points

If you need extra features you use extra programs which are tailored to those features. Unix philosophy.

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3 points

I’m supposed to use an extra program to download a torrent in sequential order?

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6 points

CLI controls are the ultimate power user feature :)

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And if you wanna put on your naughty shoes you can theme transmission just drag flood-ui files in and tada

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164 points

qBittorrent is indeed the best, but ranking Transmission so low just screams edgy kid trying to dislike the “normie” alternative.

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The “normie” alternative in this case is uTorrent. Only Linux users know about transmission lol

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130 points

I feel like Transmission is getting unnecessary hate from this chart. It works very good, is stable, efficient…

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33 points

its the perfect client for arr or just simple torreting

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5 points

I disagree, qbitorrent is better. Had problems with transmission in my arr docker VM.

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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

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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

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The only downside is no BEP 52 support.

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108 points

This triggers me. Transmission is perfect.

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