sanitation@lemmy.today to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoPopular 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.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down14
arrow-up1155arrow-down1external-linkPopular 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.comsanitation@lemmy.today to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareVegan_Joe@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·3 months agoIt’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?
minus-squarePabloSexcrowbar@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoQbittorrent feels a lot closer to what uTorrent used to be, while Transmission has more of a Mac-style simplicity to it.
minus-squaremuusemuuse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoI2p 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.
minus-squarecomrademiao@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoMy main point of concern is most of my indexes often ban versions of transmission but I never see that for qbit.
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?
Qbittorrent feels a lot closer to what uTorrent used to be, while Transmission has more of a Mac-style simplicity to it.
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.
My main point of concern is most of my indexes often ban versions of transmission but I never see that for qbit.