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[–] lemann@lemmy.one 266 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

[–] garyyo@lemmy.world 113 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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?)

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] w2qw@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] millie@lemmy.film 30 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

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

[–] red@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] xooolooov@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] investorsexchange@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never had an issue with anything

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

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.