Comment by vlachen

1 day ago

I left the high seas many years ago, but I'm down to seed for a cause.

What's the best torrent client nowadays?

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squarefoot  1 day ago

Qbittorrent, Transmission etc. The Transmission daemon can be installed headless with negligible system load on a vast number of devices, from Raspberry Pi-like and smaller SBCs to Linux/BSD NASes, then operated from remote through the web interface or a phone app.

josh_p  1 day ago

qbittorrent is still regarded as independent and safe, I think.

https://www.qbittorrent.org/

I’m still using it happily on windows/linux.

Don’t forget your vpn!

  • vlachen  1 day ago

    That brings me to the next thing: Taking VPN suggestions. What's the best? I like secure.

    Edited to remove being a moron.

    • josh_p  21 hours ago

      I pay for proton. It works. I’m not as security conscious as I should be but it’s pretty much a set and forget thing aside from changing ports.

    • michaelmrose  1 day ago

      Then you probably don't want a free service that costs money to run where they can only make money by converting most users to paid or monetizing your information in a country where you are unlikely to have an attorney whilst operating what amounts to a honeypot for every government on earth.

      That said protonvpn seems reputable

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LargoLasskhyfv  16 hours ago

For desktop use from within Plasma/KDE I'm happy with Ktorrent. Feels very intuitive, and has no problem saturating a 1GB/s pipe, and doesn't slow the system down, while doing so.

(At least not mine, which are old and almost obsolete but have enough RAM)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTorrent / https://apps.kde.org/ktorrent/

Otherwise follow the links from there to qBitTorrent, or its mentions from other commenters here. Am not fond of transmission at all. Feels slow and sluggish in comparison.