I have finally dumped uTorrent!

OneMoar · Sep 14, 2015

been using Qbittorrent since beta and have never looked back

RandomSadness · Sep 14, 2015

Same here, using qBittorrent for a while.

blobster21 · Sep 14, 2015

Same as @Batou1986 , Tixati 2.1.6 on windows and linux

Lopez0101 · Sep 14, 2015

Another vote for Transmission QT, been using it for several years now after I ditched uTorrent.

Agility · Sep 14, 2015

Been using Vuze. Good HD video player that plays all formats. Huge configuration available depending on modes.

ZeppMan217 · Sep 14, 2015

Been using qBit for almost a month now, works fine. I heard Deluge is dead.

Octopuss · Sep 14, 2015

Heh, I see it's still the same crap. They are full of shit over there. I moved to qbittorrent about year ago (possibly longer, but I can't remember) after contemplating ditching utorrent for months. I should have done that within months after they started bundling crapware in the software. I hope this company goes bankrupt and rots in hell for not giving a shit about the users and lying.

ShiBDiB · Sep 14, 2015

utorrent 2.2.1 and don't update

Nordic · Sep 14, 2015

Tixati has been a great program. Looks bad, but works so well.

Frick · Sep 14, 2015

ShiBDiB said:
utorrent 2.2.1 and don't update

Yeah this. I do the same with Spotify, each version intruduces a stupid problem/thing, the next version usually or at least sometimes fixes it but then introduces something else. I call it "appification".

RCoon · Sep 14, 2015

I thought everybody dropped uTorrent a few months ago because it secretly mines bitcoin while your computer is on?

Either way, I started using Deluge, not that I use torrents that much any more. One of my favourite bands releases their tracks for free via mininova torrents

F-Zero · Sep 14, 2015

I still use uTorrent but version 2.2.1 with no ads and miners.

Devon68 · Sep 14, 2015

I seem to be using version 3.2 and don't see any ads. Till I saw this thread I never knew it had ads.

Ferrum Master · Sep 14, 2015

I am using transmissionqt... I use transmission on every platform actually... ZERO issues... small overhead.

Pill Monster · Sep 14, 2015

qubit said:
uTorrent is a decent program and I've used it for years, but it was time for it to finally go because of those ads.

Ran it today and saw that the ads had been enabled again due to an automatic update. I then had to faff around yet again with the advanced options to get rid of them. However, it's not just the presence of the ads and having to remove them that got me. No it was the kind of ads, scammy get rich quick ones which constantly pulsate and animate in those really annoying attention-grabbing ways. If they had been honest ads and most importantly not animated, I would have been happy to keep using uTorrent and have them displayed.

Yeah that's exactly the reason I stopped updating it, been on the same build for ages now.

Flashget (old version) was great, but when TPB switched to magnets I had to find another client compatible with magnets.

Otherwise FG is pretty versatile, can download using FTP, HTTP, or regular torrents....

RejZoR · Sep 14, 2015

I've dumped it long ago. It became a fat, bloated crap riddled with stupid ads and features I don't ever need. I used to love it because it was really tiny app in the beginning and now they entirely ruined it. Morons.

Vuze Leap
MiniGet
Transmission QT

These are my favorite ones. Super tiny, super minimalistic. Only problem I have is that both Vuze Leap and MiniGet just crash after a while and I can't get any help from the devs. If they work for you, it's great, but I had to go to Transmission QT. No bloat, just the most basic interface with few very useful extra features. And is kinda more portable than others so when I want to re-install OS while having downloads, I can keep them by copying USER profile folders of it and that's it. Others totally bork it up if you do this...

Drone · Sep 14, 2015

qubit you did a right thing just little bit too late. utorrent started to suck monkey balls long time ago.

Tixati and Transmission (Linux version only because Win version is meh) are the best.

Ares isn't bad either and Opera has plugin for torrents.

PLAfiller · Sep 14, 2015

Nice discussion. Utorrent is my favourite torrent client. I tried qBit, but didn't like it. However, what @RCoon posted makes me think twice. Ads on the uTorrent are really annoying, but honestly, I've just been ignoring them- I didn't know you can turn them off. May be I will give a chance to what other people suggested here. But so far U is still the one I find very easy-to-use. Not on my phone though. UTorrent for Android-> not so good IMO.

Ferrum Master · Sep 14, 2015

lZKoce said:
UTorrent for Android-> not so good IMO.

Any torrents for android is killing your device. Using such thing on a NAND for mobile device reduces its life span to less than a year due to I/O activity. Even it you put it on SD card, okay... the native android clients are rubbish... Use Linux deploy and CHROOT a proprer debian/fedora on top of the android and then vnc via netowork or adb forward via USB to your pc and install also transmission, config the init.d so it autoexecutes on each boot. Access it via web interface anywhere. That's the power mode for android device.

MilkyWay · Sep 14, 2015

Tixati, i stopped using utorrent years ago. There are better clients available. Transmission for Linux.

RejZoR · Sep 14, 2015

Don't see anything wrong with Windows version of Transmission. Except a bit borked language which is in my case half English, half my native. Which is annoying since I use all software in English (translations are often rubbish). Other than that it works great.

Aquinus · Sep 14, 2015

AthlonX2 said:
Transmission

I use Transmission on my gateway server which has its own RAID-5 and has all of the perks of being directly behind my firewall and connected directly to my interwebs. I use Transmission Remote GUI to control it from my tower and I have a mapped network drive that points back to the RAID-5 store on the gateway server.

I've been doing this for quite some time now and I love it.

marmiteonpizza · Sep 14, 2015

I'm happy with uTorrent, I just completely ignore the adverts; as long as I don't click on one, I'm not supporting them, that's how I see it.

I only have the uTorrent window open to start a download or delete one, it's always in the taskbar at other times or not even running, so the ads don't present much of an issue to me.

manofthem · Sep 14, 2015

I haven't used utorrent in a while, can't remember last time exactly. But I do remember when ads started popping in and they were very obnoxious.

I'm going to check out a few of the mentioned programs.

Ferrum Master · Sep 14, 2015

manofthem said:
when ads started popping in and they were very obnoxious

I had some russian whores popping up constantly

Got complaints and suspicion... Instagib the programm.

P4-630 · Sep 14, 2015

I used LimeWire more than a decade ago, haven't used any other download software ever since.

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I have finally dumped uTorrent!

What bittorrent client do you use?

BitComet

Other client (specify)

I don't use torrents

OneMoar

There is Always Moar

RandomSadness

blobster21

Lopez0101

Agility

ZeppMan217

Octopuss

ShiBDiB

Nordic

Frick

Fishfaced Nincompoop

RCoon

F-Zero

Devon68

Ferrum Master

Pill Monster

RejZoR

Drone

PLAfiller

Ferrum Master

MilkyWay

RejZoR

Aquinus

Resident Wat-man

marmiteonpizza

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

Ferrum Master

P4-630

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