Transmission is awesome because it’s simple. It only does what you need and has the best UI for doing so.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
Given the community we’re in, majority of us are power users and transmission is just way too feature light for most of us
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”.
Given I was replying to a comment in a totally different context, sure, whatever floats your boat.
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.
Being a sports car enthusiast does not automatically mean I hate Lamborghini because I own a Ferrari.
You are totally right, what I mean is you don’t have to use Linux to be a power user, but despise it it’s not a power user attitude.
CLI controls are the ultimate power user feature :)
If you need extra features you use extra programs which are tailored to those features. Unix philosophy.
I’m supposed to use an extra program to download a torrent in sequential order?
Depends why you want it. If you want it to reduce fragmentarion, then just enable fallocate. If you want it to download files in sequence, then XML RPC. If you want file to be downloaded in very inefficient way, then be patient.
Or, I just right click and select sequential download so I can start watching a movie immediately. This logic of breaking everything down into the tiniest possible bits is how we ended up with ridiculousness like the lpad debacle.
Well, torrent client should leech and seed very fast and very efficient, watching videos is not on this list. XMLRPC also makes it convenient and expandable.
And sequential downloads are bad for swarm, please don’t do this.
Just because your use case is different from others does not invalidate all other use cases.
Also, there’s a reason no clients support sequential download as a default option. Having the very occasional download where I would like to start watching immediately upon starting the download is not going to break the swarm, or even affect it.
And if you wanna put on your naughty shoes you can theme transmission just drag flood-ui files in and tada
qBittorrent is indeed the best, but ranking Transmission so low just screams edgy kid trying to dislike the “normie” alternative.
The “normie” alternative in this case is uTorrent. Only Linux users know about transmission lol
I feel like Transmission is getting unnecessary hate from this chart. It works very good, is stable, efficient…
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
Hell, o can’t even order torrents that are currently running by size or % done
Sure you can, click the gear icon and do it. Not hard.
Also, I don’t think it’s actively developed anymore
fud fud fud https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases/tag/4.0.0
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
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
its the perfect client for arr or just simple torreting
The only downside is no BEP 52 support.
This triggers me. Transmission is perfect.
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Transmission is good precisely because it does one thing and one thing really well - download torrents. No other crap, spam and non-related garbage required.
It does not do it very well (no sequential downloads, tracker scanning etc) and others like qBitTorrent also do not come with spam nor unrelated garbage, only μTorrent does that.
I get what you mean, but none of those downsides to Transmission are just “downloads torrents”. So yes, it does do that very well, outside of special circumstances…
It always downloads everything at the same time and it doesn’t find extra trackers, both cause it to download worse.
So no, it doesn’t actually do that one thing very well.
rTorrent “UNIX only” and c-tier. That says all you need to know about this list.
UNIX only has vague meaning. BSD is true UNIX, Darwin is butchered UNIX, Windows has POSIX compatibility enviroment(cygwin), Linux is POSIX.
That was my point. Also BSD is not true Unix, it is Unix-like. Only Unix is Unix.
The original BSD is based on Unix so you could say it’s “true Unix”, but modern BSD systems has modified the source code so much that almost every code is now more different original Unix so you could say it’s “Unix-like”.
Illumos in the other hand is actually true Unix as it’s based on Solaris which is based on Unix System V.
MacOS is UNIX certified https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
I have seen this same image circulated for years. We need a new one because transmission in D tier is unacceptable.
Yeah “it does nothing but downloads torrents” is the selling point. It’s the reason I exclusively use Transmission.
Transmission used to be my preferred app hands down but recent updates have negatively impacted its performance on my end. If all it needs to do is download torrents, why does it now sometimes seem incapable of connecting to a given (popular) swarm ?
Particularly unfortunate is that once it does connect, the download speed has now become arbitrary: it keeps alternating between ‘incredibly fast’ and ‘surprisingly slow’ and takes three or four times as long to complete. I’ve become so exasperated with it that I’ve been forced to move on (deluge instantly connects and consistently downloads at five times the speed).
This is out of date and Deluge is S tier.
It was rewritten and 2.0 came out in 2022 to address the slowdown issues when seeding a thousand plus torrents
qbittorrent all the way :)
I love the built in http server for remote control. It’s literally a clone of the desktop window with all the same controls/options.
Is there an equivalent to “thin client” mode of Deluge, where you can connect the desktop version to a server and control it as if it was a local install, but the server does all the legwork?
It really makes the whole thing seamless.
That would require installing client software though, no?
Qbit is just a web app accessible from anything with a browser. (I keep mine behind a vpn for auth, but it’s got http form based password auth aswell.)
I dunno maybe it’s just gimmicky but it feels so nice to have a desktop app over and webui that still uses the server. I use Deluge for only that reason
It does, but it feels more integrated. Clicking a magnet link or opening a torrent file is handled natively by the OS and pass it over to the native app, which talks to the Deluge server if used in thin client mode. It’s really neat.
Fair.
I rarely manage torrent files/links anymore. I tend to do manual searches via Prowlarr and just use the interface to monitor progress.
Yes, this is one of the main things I love Deluge for.
Except the ability to create torrents.
That’s one of the only things you can’t do via the web app, but there is a ‘torrent creator’ under the ‘tools’ menu. I haven’t used it though so I can’t really say how good it is.
BiglyBT having a chat feature boggles me, why would anyone want that in their torrent client?
I believe Tixati also has a chat feature
This post made me nostalgic for the days when uTorrent was the shit. Man, how the mighty have fallen.
Qbit has been around almost as long and has almost always been better. Qbit got apl the nostalgia i need lol
Transmission is probably one of the best clients to use in a headless setup. I think it usually ranks lower because it doesn’t do a lot of things for you. What it does it does well, but nothing beyond that. Technically there is network binding, but by IP address and not interface. That means you have to script it which I know most people aren’t going to want to do. As far as searching, again you have to rely on other services that probably do it better anyway. Still I rank it alongside qbittorrent. It just takes a less user or beginner friendly route.
I use it specifically for headless because of the convenience of many pre-made docker containers set up to use a VPN with Transmission.
Why would I want those extra features in my torrent client? My transmission runs in a container and does its job
Yep my other packages manage everything else, transmission is rarely logged into on the GUI side. KISS
Just the option to not have the new torrent dialog pop up every time is reason enough for me. And just proper sorting. And quick content overview.
Transmission is considered the worst. Blocked by most people and private trackers.
My private tracker has multiple transmission versions on their approved list 🤷♂️
Everyone sleeping on qBittorrent with the search plugin enabled. I never have to go to websites ever again, I can just pull from various domains with one search built into the program.
I use transmission because the arr’s handle all searching. I never even see the torrent client.
the arr’s
Wait, is the whole *arr naming scheme a joke around the pirate slang word, and thus pirating?
How did I not realize this before???
yessir
sonarr, radarr, bazarr, lidarr, prowlarr and a bunch of other smaller ones.
yessaar
im just waiting for a Mangarr that actually works, currently run FMD in a container.
Yeah I find it odd that dedicated pirates would use anything else these days.
It’s a lot more to setup, when you only torrent something once a week at max it may not be worth
Yes but oftentimes is better to check the comments for issues/procedures
Can still visit the download page from there
Which plugin do you use?
You can enable it in the View menu at the top if I recall correctly.
I know, but which one?
I think quite a few of us use torrents on a remote server, so the thin app / remote client combo mode that deluge/transmission support puts them ahead of any other for consideration.
Are you taking about remotely accessing the
insuranceinterface from the web interface? Qbittorrent offers that, and honestly I think most of the clients on this list do as well?Nope, I mean a remote client. You get a full GUI on your local machine, but that actually is connected to a remote server, where the downloads actually take place. This has the extra responsiveness of an app vs a web UI, and you can also associate magnets/torrents as if it was a local app.
Kinda neat, though I’m not really convinced that it’s necessary…I don’t think a web UI is unresponsive, and it’s pretty easy to just copy and paste magnet links. Also, if you’re looking for a way to automate things and manage torrents remotely…Radarr/Sonarr and the other 'arrs are the way to go.
It’s not absolutely necessary. But then again, you could use rTorrent and work from console. Not that the WebUI is indispensable either, when your main source is the -Arrs. But still, I still prefer to have a full blown GUI at hand that takes files and links natively, if I have the choice, instead of a more limited WebUI.
I mean … qbittorrent has that and more in a web interface and is plenty responsive. Why an app of a web interface gets the job done?
I miss that from transmission, but qbit is more suitable for arrs and that was a dealbreaker for me
In which way is it more suitable? I’m using Deluge now. It allows labels, so my Sonarr and Radarr torrents have their individual labels and get moved to specific folders accordingly.
Well, I was talking about transmission, not deluge. Transmission doesnt support categories afaik. I never tried deluge tbh
That’s the point…I ended up moving away from Transmission to Deluge back in the day. Deluge has a lot of quirks and its own messiness too, so if you’re happy with Transmission, by all means stick to it.
