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Popular Linux torrent client Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission" to "solve a longstanding disagreement between the Transmission maintainers on whether or not to add more maintainers." (github.com)
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[-] comrademiao@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago

Why does anyone use this over qbit?

[-] amorpheus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Tried both, qBittorrent is much heavier on the CPU just sitting there idling. I do have a large amount of torrents, maybe over 200, and I didn't expect to notice such a difference.

[-] Vegan_Joe@anarchist.nexus 17 points 2 days ago

It's lightweight, open source, and does exactly what it's supposed to.

I kind of legacyed my way into it. It was the first thing I grabbed after uTorrent went to hell decades ago.

What is the advantage of qbit over it?

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I2p torrenting is supported by QBitTorrent not transmission. Transmission is simple, clean, lightweight and does the thing. QB is a million knobs dials and levers and comparatively heavier though not offensively so.

[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

Qbittorrent feels a lot closer to what uTorrent used to be, while Transmission has more of a Mac-style simplicity to it.

[-] comrademiao@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

My main point of concern is most of my indexes often ban versions of transmission but I never see that for qbit.

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It works great headless on my server. It does what it is supposed to do without any bloat that I would not use anyway.

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