rtorrent VS deluge-to-rtorrent

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rtorrent and rutorrent might suit your needs. For easy setup on Debian you could use this

I've been a habitual rtorrent user but it feels like it's time to move on - it's also a little annoying that this issue has never seen traction.

Unfortunately rtorrent is pretty much dead: https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/commits/master

I know it's not quite the same thing but I started using rtorrent[0] a very long time ago and it still works well for my needs.

Is there anyone who has used both who can comment on the pros and cons?

[0] https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent

Better in what exactly? Anyway, rtorrent seems abandoned. The last commit was 8 months ago. Transmission's last commit was 5 days ago. And regarding transmission-cli: "Prior to development of transmission-remote, the standalone client transmission-cli was created. Limited to a single torrent at a time, transmission-cli is deprecated and exists primarily to support older hardware dependent upon it. In almost all instances, transmission-remote should be used instead.".

rtorrent (pkg i rtorrent)

There is autodlirssi function in rutorrent which can drop automatic torrents to deluge, also there is postcompletion script which should help you move completed torrents to rtorrent if you wish to seed them longer. https://github.com/wseedbox/deluge-to-rtorrent you will need some minor fixes on path.

Hi I have been trying you use this script. https://github.com/wseedbox/deluge-to-rtorrent/blob/master/deluge_to_rtorrent.sh

You should use the deluge-to-rtorrent (instructions are also included) script to move torrents from Deluge to ruTorrent. I don't think this script allows you to move torrents specified by a tracker. At least that is what I realized from the script's description.

ruTorrent - I find Deluge starts to struggle when it's loaded with too many torrents. My rTorrent has over 4000 loaded with no slowdown in the UI. It's also useful to keep a separation from what I'm racing (I generally don't care to keep these files, they stay on my scratch drive). I move things from Deluge to here manually, though I have this script that automates it bookmarked to implement soon(tm).