Transmission is awesome because it's simple. It only does what you need and has the best UI for doing so.
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I'm caught between the dual urges of "reject tierlist, embrace tradition" and "I've been sleeping on over a decade of FOSS torrent client development, maybe it's time to up my game".
Nah, someone is just using their torrent client as an F grade *arr and nbz360 solution.
All the "features" listed as Pros is just bloat.
qBittorrent is indeed the best, but ranking Transmission so low just screams edgy kid trying to dislike the "normie" alternative.
I feel like Transmission is getting unnecessary hate from this chart. It works very good, is stable, efficient...
Transmission is good precisely because it does one thing and one thing really well - download torrents. No other crap, spam and non-related garbage required.
It does not do it very well (no sequential downloads, tracker scanning etc) and others like qBitTorrent also do not come with spam nor unrelated garbage, only μTorrent does that.
rTorrent “UNIX only” and c-tier. That says all you need to know about this list.
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.
This is out of date and Deluge is S tier.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
qbittorrent all the way :)
I love the built in http server for remote control. It's literally a clone of the desktop window with all the same controls/options.
BiglyBT having a chat feature boggles me, why would anyone want that in their torrent client?
This post made me nostalgic for the days when uTorrent was the shit. Man, how the mighty have fallen.
Qbit has been around almost as long and has almost always been better. Qbit got apl the nostalgia i need lol
Transmission is probably one of the best clients to use in a headless setup. I think it usually ranks lower because it doesn't do a lot of things for you. What it does it does well, but nothing beyond that. Technically there is network binding, but by IP address and not interface. That means you have to script it which I know most people aren't going to want to do. As far as searching, again you have to rely on other services that probably do it better anyway. Still I rank it alongside qbittorrent. It just takes a less user or beginner friendly route.
Why would I want those extra features in my torrent client? My transmission runs in a container and does its job
Everyone sleeping on qBittorrent with the search plugin enabled. I never have to go to websites ever again, I can just pull from various domains with one search built into the program.
I use transmission because the arr's handle all searching. I never even see the torrent client.
the arr's
Wait, is the whole *arr naming scheme a joke around the pirate slang word, and thus pirating?
How did I not realize this before???
yessir
sonarr, radarr, bazarr, lidarr, prowlarr and a bunch of other smaller ones.
I think quite a few of us use torrents on a remote server, so the thin app / remote client combo mode that deluge/transmission support puts them ahead of any other for consideration.
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.
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.
I switched from rtorrent to Transmission. It's the only one with a ready-to-use web server so I can add and monitor my torrents remotely.
I would never run a torrent program on my main computer. Not that there's (more) risks, it just feels wrong to me.
Does qbittorrent not have a ready-to-use web server? I don't recall setting mine up
I'd like to give PicoTorrent a shout-out on Windows. Small, lightweight, and open source.
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!
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.
I switched from Transmission to qBittorrent a while ago, and I have some regrets: mainly that the qBittorrent web ui is extremely hard to navigate on mobile. Everything is tiny, and I can't zoom in and navigate around the page without right-click menus popping up
I use qBitController to check my torrent status, it works quite well for my needs. If you're on Android you could try it out..
A properly setup rTorrent is S tier.
Although rtorrent is a masterpiece, there hasn't been any development in years... of course it got behind and it's outdated now. Qbittorrent on the other hand really easy to work with and frequently updated.
has anyone ever heard of mottix?
I find it great, has a nice UI and it gets the job done.
also transmission is an S tier
Seconded for Transmission. It's light on features because (as far as I know) it's the only ine in this list that's built to run unattended in a Docker container, with a web interface.
Welp, the lesson I have learned from this thread is that I should feel fine with transmission in my container set lol
Does anybody know why Tixati is banned on private trackers? I switched from it quite a while ago but they didn't really say why.
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.
Ranked by what?
(Features*(IsOSS+1)*EaseOfUse)/(1+(Ads))
just my guess