13 comments

  • notepad0x90 a day ago ago

    I just use aria2c these days, for CLI it works more intuitively for me, but rtorrent is great as well. aria2c feels more like running curl or wget, much more intuitive for scripting with it. I'm just glad there are many choices.

    • shellwizard 21 hours ago ago

      Yep, same, I prefer aria2c for one go torrent/magnet links although it lacks a proper TUI for handling more than one torrent, transmission daemon and transmission-remote was better in that regard

    • johng 11 hours ago ago

      transmission-cli is great. aria2c is great. There's even tget that works good: https://github.com/jeffjose/tget

      As far as WebUI goes I do prefer qbittorrent.

      For people really serious about torrents on the CLI/TUI, this is the best one I've seen: rTorrent-ps: https://github.com/pyroscope/rtorrent-ps

  • ciupicri 18 hours ago ago

    For some reason it seems to read something like 3x or even more from the disk than it uploads. Like Linux reported 1 TB read in ~3 days and I definitely didn't upload that much.

  • qiqitori a day ago ago

    Used this possibly 20 years ago! Time flies like a banana.

    • woleium 4 hours ago ago

      fruit flies like an arrow?

  • bitbasher a day ago ago

    I’ve been using rtorrent for like 15 years and still do. I miss the colored patch I used to have. I seemed to have lost it.

  • jauntywundrkind a day ago ago

    Rtorrent is pretty fine. But for as long as I used it, the UI would hang on me for sometimes multiple seconds.

    I really appreciate modern heavily async software like the Yazi file manager. Maintaining user responsiveness feels so nice. https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi

  • globular-toast a day ago ago

    This is a blast from the past. I ran this along with irssi in a screen session for years. It was known to be one of the fastest clients on a fat pipe like 100mbps, which seemed outlandishly fast back then. Nowadays I have 1Gbps up/down to my house...