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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If only it also offered i2p and webtorrent support

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If with webtorrent you mean pasting a link and it downloads directly then the qt gui version has that i think (idk about the gtk or cli versions)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, I mean seeding for users on the web by using the WebRTC protocol. I want to seed to as many platforms as I can

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uhm, qBittorrent? Tried others but they simply have less features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only downside to Qb (which i still use despite this) is that the web interface is completely inaccessible from a mobile phone. Makes remotely managing torrents when I don't have my laptop handy a real pain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is an app exactly for that. Called qbittorrent remote or something, on FDroid

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

brilliant!! thank you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Qbit or ru/rtorrent for me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've only used Deluge on Windicks but I have to say ktorrent was good while I used it on Arch with KDE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love ktorrent

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm using Transmission, only 5 on the list. Must do better. :p

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use deluge mainly because it can easily be run as a daemon inside of a docker container, so I can just let my torrents run unattended on my homeserver, and always protected by a VPN with killswitch.

On my desktop I use the GUI client to connect to the daemon and manage my torrents as if it were local.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can do the same with qBittorrent, by the way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I evaluated both when I chose this solution several years ago. Don't ask me why I chose one over the other though, I don't remember.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, Kazaa? 😓

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wait frostwire still exists? I remember using it to download mp3's back when I still used Windows XP. These days I use transmission for torrents. But only rarely to download a linux ISO.