rtorrent VS qBittorrent

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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)

Not really. qBittorent is built on Qt (thus the prefix), and has a hand-rolled webui in pure html + css + js (with a couple of helper libraries, but no heavy frameworks):

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/tree/master/src/w...

Use this. Just google how to on ytube.

Now if curious about installing errors and other installer related issues, then here's a small collection: https://www.reddit.com/r/qBittorrent/s/cwCUg9JHLj https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/discussions/17581 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/17605 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/18340 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19980 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/18636 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19226 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19991 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19978 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19977

I’ve used qbittorrent for the last few years. Had no problems with it

Torrenting clients - qBittorrent still supports Win7 if you select the qt5 variant. For people that do not know what qBittorrent is - it is uTorrent, just without bloatware, ads, malware and such. It's open-source. UPDATE: it dropped Win7 support in October. ;_; (quick, somebody make a fork! https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/ ) - here's the last downloadable Win7 version - https://www.fosshub.com/qBittorrent-old.html?dwl=qbittorrent_4.5.5_lt20_qt5_x64_setup.exe (but hey, I'm still downloading torrents fine in under WinXP 32-bit via the ancient uTorrent 2.2.1, so this version of qBittorrent might last for 10+ years for Win7...)

.........What download manager are you using there? Whatever it is, stop and uninstall it like yesterday. Get this https://www.qbittorrent.org/ and try again.

qBittorrent announces Tailscale IPs that are practically never connectable. I believe it's a bug so I reported it to qBit.