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So a bunch of people in this subreddit told me that uTorrent was trash and to switch to QBitTorrent.

I didn't think much of it. How could one be so much better than the other? They're both just torrent downloaders.

Holy shit was I wrong. I don't even really understand what is happening, but downloading torrents on QBitTorrent is so, so, so much faster and I don't even understand how.

A movie downloads in basically seconds compared to 10 or 20 minutes on uTorrent.

Why is this? What is this magic? What makes QBitTorrent so much faster?

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[-] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 141 points 10 months ago
[-] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

Ever since uTorrent started mining on users computers, ive been on QBT

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Is it still being updated? I ran from it when I knew Transmission and Qbittorrent were a thing.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 86 points 10 months ago

uTorrent has been down the shitter for over a decade now, I wouldn't be surprised if the download speed was throttled without a pro subscription. It could also be a difference in how the applications discover seeds, or how much CPU time or memory is allocated to downloads.

As a general rule, if an application is full of anti-features, it tends to have better, usually FOSS, alternatives.

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And alternativeto.net is the place to find them alternatives

[-] ram@bookwormstory.social 57 points 10 months ago

uTorrent doesn't play well in the landscape of the modern bittorrent protocol. It's also adware, infringes upon your privacy, and is a malware risk.

qBittorrent is my client of choice, but other popular and great clients are Deluge (only up to ~500 torrents), transmission, and rtorrent (on Linux). There's other clients as well but YMMV, especially if you do any private tracker usage.

[-] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Agrred, QBT and Deluge are great options

[-] ram@bookwormstory.social 3 points 10 months ago

Ya, my only issue with Deluge is after ~500 torrents it starts to slow. I'm on private trackers, so I always tend to have ~2,000 torrents seeding at once. For my particular usecase, it simply becomes too slow and bogged down to be viable.

Granted, I've not used Deluge in some 2 or 3 years; maybe they improved process handling since then? I'd love to be corrected if so.

[-] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Hmm, not sure. Ive been on deluge for a while but ive used QBT before. Might be time to benchmark again

[-] ram@bookwormstory.social 2 points 10 months ago

If you do, I'd be interested to hear results. Deluge's plugins are nice and it's easy to make your own. If it wasn't for the performance issues, I'd likely still be there.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Utorrent kind of went really downhill and sold itself. Nobody should ever use utorrent anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-VEB4NLGMM

Tldr; bittorrent bought out utorrent and started putting ads in the client

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[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago

I don't know if uTorrent does ratelimit torrents someway (they shouldn't be by theory), but it being adware is enough of a result to switch to another torrent client.

I'm more of a fan of Deluge, but alternatives like qBittorrent / Transmission are solid choices.

[-] Sterben@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Trasmission never worked well for me, on the other hand qBittorrent did the job perfectly.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 10 months ago

I'm assuming you mean you were using one of the older, "safe" versions of uTorrent. But yeah, the technology has updated. It's better.

[-] DingoBilly@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

You were probably using the wrong version of utorrent.

I think you need something like 1.6. No adware, no malware, just works fast and easy.

[-] Sterben@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

QBittorrent has been my torrent Client for 4/5 years at this point, never having problems. It works on my Steam Deck too (Arch).

[-] angelsomething@lemmy.one 10 points 10 months ago

I have had the same experience switching from deluge to qbittorrrent. It’s like, another world.

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I prefer Transmission, as they have Windows ports as well.

[-] shikitohno@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago

So does Qbittorrent, if you're unaware.

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[-] skydivekingair@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I tried grabbing Qbit and all I could find was malware. I used to be so so good at navigating all this stuff and stopped to stream for a little. ☹️

[-] Ashiette 17 points 10 months ago

sudo apt install qbittorrent

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 16 points 10 months ago

sudo pacman -S qbittorrent

[-] Spearman3618@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

flatpak install org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 13 points 10 months ago

sudo dnf install qbittorrent

[-] overkill@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago
home.packages = with pkgs; [
  # ...
  qbittorrent
];
[-] ardi60@reddthat.com 12 points 10 months ago

winget install --id=qBittorrent.qBittorrent -e

[-] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Scoop install qbittorrent

choco install qbittorrent

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[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Doesn’t sound like you were looking in the right places

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

The best executables with malware actually perform the function you expect them to.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

You're not wrong but that's not the point here. QBittorrent doesn’t have malware which means they got it from the wrong source.

[-] SaltySalamander@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

How tf you managed that I will never ever understand......

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[-] null@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago

The official website with downloads is the first hit on Google...

[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 2 points 10 months ago

What OS do you have? If Windows, it is available in the Microsoft store.

[-] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

Let's be real, that's the last place anyone would look for a torrent client

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

yay qbittorrent

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[-] Untitled4774@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

There are a handful of features that I really like with qbittorrent but there were plugins I can’t find replacements for from Deluge:

  • having items deleted after meeting seeding requirements, as *arr auto imports, but having exceptions for private trackers
  • the above without having the *arr stack have a permanent warning
  • auto adding public default trackers to any public torrent

I’ve switched back and forth a few times and I run them side by side but let deluge take the reins of most of it because I have it set up to be hands off with the above.

If anyone knows how I can set up qbt the same way that would be great though

[-] LocustOfControl@reddthat.com 8 points 10 months ago

I do miss that really detailed block download page, but that's only cos I'd watch it instead of doing something useful with my life.

[-] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I switch from uTorrent to qBittorrent when Ninite dropped it. I wasn't aware that uTorrent had become aware, and Ninite had my back. I trust those guys with the selection of softwares they offer.

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[-] Anon518@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I found qBT to be missing features utorrent has, and thus I stick with UT v2.2, which is the latest recommended one before they started making controversial changes. I've never had any issues with utorrent's speed.

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[-] princessnorah 3 points 10 months ago

qbittorrent also has better theme support in my opinion. Dracula theme is even available for both the local client and WebUI server client: https://draculatheme.com/qbittorrent

[-] n8vos@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

where does Tixati fit on your lists?

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