Hi, ive been pirating stuff for a bit and I currently use Picotorrent, but I wanted to know what everyone else uses to see if there is a better option.
qBittorrent on my Windows boxes, Transmission on my MacBook. Gotta figure out how I’m gonna get my server set up though once I migrate it to openmediavault instead of Windows Server
I use aria for regular downloads, but couldn’t get it to work with torrents. It’s very picky what it downloads and what not. Maybe configuration thing, but gave up after few tries. I prefer dedicated solutions
Tribler is an open source decentralized BitTorrent client which allows anonymous peer-to-peer by default. Tribler is based on the BitTorrent protocol and uses an overlay network for content searching
You need to add your own “plugins” (sources) which sites you wanna search, and you’ll still get result info to choose which torrent you want to download. You need to have python installed (don’t worry, it’s available on windows and mac as well) and you can find a list of plugins and more instructions here
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qBittorrent on my Windows boxes, Transmission on my MacBook. Gotta figure out how I’m gonna get my server set up though once I migrate it to openmediavault instead of Windows Server
I use transmission. M1 compatible, open source and free
Does using ports on transmission do anything?
Mainly LibreTorrent on Android since I only pirate music and anime.
rTorrent with the Flood UI.
qbittorrent-qt5, the default qt6 toolkit version looks a bit out of place with my Plasma theme.
rTorrent with the Flood UI.
aria2, a terminal client because I don’t want to clutter my screen area with apps that have limited U and little interaction with me.
I use aria for regular downloads, but couldn’t get it to work with torrents. It’s very picky what it downloads and what not. Maybe configuration thing, but gave up after few tries. I prefer dedicated solutions
Tribler.
Love me some DHT! The dht has saved some of my trackerless quests on many occasions.
If PicoTorrent meets your needs then you’re fine, it’s a great torrent client.
I tend to use qBittorrent, Deluge, rTorrent/ruTorrent.
Below is the list of desktop/server torrent clients people have mentioned over on the old subreddit.
I’ll just add that it’s best to avoid current versions of BitTorrent/uTorrent/Vuze nowadays. (Vuze users should migrate to BiglyBT)
Thanks!
KTorrent on KDE desktop on Linux. Transmission on other operating systems.
qbittorrent because I love the search engine
I guess the search engine works well? Does it find safe torrents (out there such a thing as safe torrents?)?
You need to add your own “plugins” (sources) which sites you wanna search, and you’ll still get result info to choose which torrent you want to download. You need to have python installed (don’t worry, it’s available on windows and mac as well) and you can find a list of plugins and more instructions here
uTorrent 2, the last one before the acquisition. Can find it on old software sites
Real debrid.
My favorite used to be torrentflux, these days I mostly use transmission
Qbittorrent enhanced edition