[Ask] Choice of "torrent client" in 2019

[theSEMAR]

I have heard that qbittorrent is one of the candidates. (many people recommend that)
what do you think? are there other torrent clients?

All suggestions will be very helpful.

[politux]

qBittorrent is my favorite. Used Deluge for years as well.

[contrail]

Deluge
uTorrent
qBittorrent

[RobertX]

Transmission hands down.

[wwary4]

*rtorrent*, for God's sake.
others don't even come close. except for ctorrent maybe, haven't tried that one.
you can run rtorrent on many home routers (OpenWRT...)

[politux]

*rtorrent*, for God's sake.
others don't even come close. except for ctorrent maybe, haven't tried that one.
you can run rtorrent on many home routers (OpenWRT...)

rtorrent with the rutorrent webui is the best for seedboxes imho. If you like the command line you can run rtorrent alone. Most users aren't that skilled.

[wwary4]

yes, but torrent client doesn't really need fancy GUI, I think. Photoshop needs GUI.
rtorrent has some 'text ui', not just the command line.
I just copy the .torrent file to start/ dir and forget about it.

[politux]

yes, but torrent client doesn't really need fancy GUI, I think. Photoshop needs GUI.
rtorrent has some 'text ui', not just the command line.
I just copy the .torrent file to start/ dir and forget about it.

I used rtorrent alone for quite a while. Locally and a seedbox. You are vastly over estimating the capabilities of the average pirate here.  Most are still running Windows.

[dueda]

One client nobody is talking about is Koinonen, but it's paid. Considering Bit Torrent protocol involves free distribution and copyright restriction vs. freedom matters, it's curious it's developers chose the paid-only model and the resulting unpopularity.

[koinonein]

One client nobody is talking about is Koinonen, but it's paid. Considering Bit Torrent protocol involves free distribution and copyright restriction vs. freedom matters, it's curious it's developers chose the paid-only model and the resulting unpopularity.

It's a little curious, there was the option for some funding to be had at the start of the year but it could only be had on the basis that the project was 'with a view to make a profit' hence the change from free to paid. That chapter is finished now so Koinonein is back being free and it's staying free for personal use but there is an option to pay for extended file analysis services that will be rolled out early next year and that should cover development and hosting costs. Can't give away the additional analysis services as they need to be subscribed to by Koinonein first but depending on how that goes it might be possible towards the end of next year to offer a limited free service.