I feel like Transmission is getting unnecessary hate from this chart. It works very good, is stable, efficient…
It’s lthe only one I’d use but…
It really is lacking basic functionality. Hell, o can’t even order torrents that are currently running by size or % done, which would be really helpful if it existed
Also, I don’t think it’s actively developed anymore, I haven’t seen an update in its functionality in at least 5 years, maybe even 10
Hell, o can’t even order torrents that are currently running by size or % done
Sure you can, click the gear icon and do it. Not hard.
Also, I don’t think it’s actively developed anymore
fud fud fud https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases/tag/4.0.0
Not fud, I personally haven’t seen any update since at least the last 5 years. If there are updates then I’ll be pissed with Ubuntu for sticking with the 5-10 year old version
Hell, o can’t even order torrents that are currently running by size or % done, which would be really helpful if it existed
Alright I’ll stick with qbittorent
its the perfect client for arr or just simple torreting
I have seen this same image circulated for years. We need a new one because transmission in D tier is unacceptable.
Yeah “it does nothing but downloads torrents” is the selling point. It’s the reason I exclusively use Transmission.
Transmission used to be my preferred app hands down but recent updates have negatively impacted its performance on my end. If all it needs to do is download torrents, why does it now sometimes seem incapable of connecting to a given (popular) swarm ?
Particularly unfortunate is that once it does connect, the download speed has now become arbitrary: it keeps alternating between ‘incredibly fast’ and ‘surprisingly slow’ and takes three or four times as long to complete. I’ve become so exasperated with it that I’ve been forced to move on (deluge instantly connects and consistently downloads at five times the speed).
Whoever designed that seems like they have something against transmission lol.
For me personally: it gets the job done, is allowed by most private trackers, fast and responsive, has a functional webui, and a very vast selection of third party apps (in addition to the cross platform first-party offering)
It’s simplicity is kind of its selling point. Only real criticism I have is that it’s unfortunate some of the supported features aren’t accessible in the first party apps, and especially from the lightweight web interface
Came here to defend transmission. Glad to see so many compatriots.
Yeah, I’ve used qbittorrent, deluge, utorrent, and a number of other clients over the years. I greatly prefer transmission. I don’t need my torrent client to do anything but download and seed.
I bet this person hates GIMP too.
And Qbit also has network binding, which is the single most important feature for me as a VPN user.
Yeah, seems weird that simple “it downloads torrents” client gets a D. It gets the job done, is easy to figure out, and doesnt fuck about with features I would never touch. Maybe thats not enough for a power user but for me its exactly what I want.
(but then why is Tixati in B, seems to have mostly downsides?)
I use transmission because I can install it from Ubuntu repos and it runs from the command line in Ubuntu server.
I dropped Transmission because I found it had severe performance problems with very large torrents. qBittorrent has been great.
Never had an issue with anything
Neither did I until I tried running torrents > 100GB.
There was some bug in the way it was using Java’s non-blocking IO and buffer classes that caused resource starvation with very large torrents.
Why would I want those extra features in my torrent client? My transmission runs in a container and does its job
Yep my other packages manage everything else, transmission is rarely logged into on the GUI side. KISS
Just the option to not have the new torrent dialog pop up every time is reason enough for me. And just proper sorting. And quick content overview.
Transmission is considered the worst. Blocked by most people and private trackers.
My private tracker has multiple transmission versions on their approved list 🤷♂️
I like Transmission, it’s minimal and downloads torrents.
May I also mention aria2? I don’t think it counts as a torrent client but it supports torrenting.
Same. I never needed those bell & whistles from other apps and found Transmission to get the job done.
Transmission as a server is very good and lightweight, specially if you pair it with something like Flood and the *arr apps
Transmission does have network binding. At least, i’m pretty sure it does. At least on Linux. It also has a cli interface and is a “full” client so it should at least be on par with rTorrent in that sense. It’s not a great cli interface but it works.
It’s got a web interface too.
Used qBittorrent for a long time now. No complaints. Ever since I’ve set up a home server, I almost exclusively use qBittorrent-nox now. Its qBittorrent, but headless! Runs all the time. Just use a web ui to access it. I can even run a reverse proxy and access it from afar!
Do you have to manually add magnet links?
I’ll never understand the FOSS mentality of “There’s already a quality project out there with active development and most of the user-share. Perfect, so I’ll utilize my off-time to create my own inferior competitor and fragment the users instead of contribute to the existing one”.
I mean, I get it if the existing project maintainers start acting with shady interests - the threat of the fork can be a powerful tool. But it seems like many of these alt projects do it right out of the gate. Meanwhile, it took linux desktop how long to get a functional wifi driver out of the box??
Likely what happens is that while the existing options are fine for the masses, a power user has a specific use case that is not covered by said options, so they create their own program to fit their specific needs. Eventually this new program evolves into something that is also useful to the masses, and that’s how we get to where we are now with several good FOSS options.
A lot of it is just difference in vision. FOSS projects often have an owner and they might not be open to switch the direction of their project or be willing to maintain a large feature that someone wants to contribute.
there is also the “I rewrote it using Rust/Go/whatever because that makes it better” people.
This triggers me. Transmission is perfect.
Welp, the lesson I have learned from this thread is that I should feel fine with transmission in my container set lol
This is out of date and Deluge is S tier.
It was rewritten and 2.0 came out in 2022 to address the slowdown issues when seeding a thousand plus torrents
I use rtorrent+rutorrent for a web UI, and it’s starting to show its age…
Is there anything else out there that can handle 10,000+ torrents? I seed a lot of ebooks 🤓
Zero issues with Transmission. I seed way more than that. Putting it so low really indicates who put together this chart. Definitely an Ubuntu GUI-only user.
Torrent client is supposed to handle torrents. Transmission isn’t lagging behind on any protocol features. All the other (very optional) features are trivially handled by docker/podman.
It’s always like that, features over stability. I love seeding ebooks!
edit: if you use rtorrent, check out https://github.com/saltyorg/Saltbox it’s an Ansible based solution for management and development
Transmission can run as a daemon, that alones makes it S tier.
So can rTorrent
should be S tier also, then.
What are the advantages to running it as a daemon outside of the obvious malicious ones?
I run it headless in a small pc in my basement that I use as server. it also has an http api so other systems can integrate with it (eg another program that looks for torrents and pushes the torrents into it.
I run Transmission on a VM that is permanently connected to a VPN. It dumps the completed files on an NFS share. I’m open to trying something different. Transmission seems like the best option.
You forgot to include Tribler. Since it has some tor-like privacy features, it beats all of the mentioned ones.
Why do I feel like the home page is quietly flipping me off?
