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Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by walrus01 »

senko wrote: post #10
kube-system wrote: post #2

I don’t do much with BitTorrent other than download Linux isos. What’s the advantage to Deluge over Transmission? (which is what I’ve always used since the whole uTorrent controversy)

Deluge can work in client-server mode, which is great if you have an always-on home server, but use the client on your laptop. No need to worry if you can suspend your laptop or go away, the torrents will download and/or uninetrrupted. This is also great if you want to seed the iso images and lower your distros' hosting bills, and not just "hit and run" (download and stop).

Rtorrent on a Linux or bsd cli running inside screen or tmux on a server also works excellently for the purpose of persistently seeding things from a system that isn't your main workstation that hibernates and moves around.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by seabrookmx »

ekianjo wrote: post #8
kube-system wrote: post #2

I don’t do much with BitTorrent other than download Linux isos. What’s the advantage to Deluge over Transmission? (which is what I’ve always used since the whole uTorrent controversy)

Deluge also has a good Web client.

transmission does as well.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by edgyquant »

senko wrote: post #10
kube-system wrote: post #2

I don’t do much with BitTorrent other than download Linux isos. What’s the advantage to Deluge over Transmission? (which is what I’ve always used since the whole uTorrent controversy)

Deluge can work in client-server mode, which is great if you have an always-on home server, but use the client on your laptop. No need to worry if you can suspend your laptop or go away, the torrents will download and/or uninetrrupted. This is also great if you want to seed the iso images and lower your distros' hosting bills, and not just "hit and run" (download and stop).

Transmission has a web interface and can be ran as a daemon.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

#14

Post by lapser »

What's really cool about Deluge is that it can run in a client/server mode where the Deluge can act as a thinclient. This way you can set up a server, and install Deluge on all your machines, and have them all connect to the same server. As with many other torrent clients, there is of course also a web ui, as well as various thinclient apps.

Having said that, if you don't need a good client/server model, my personal preference is qBittorent, which, for me having grown up with uTorrent, is a lot nicer to use.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

#15

Post by artdigital »

senko wrote: post #10
kube-system wrote: post #2

I don’t do much with BitTorrent other than download Linux isos. What’s the advantage to Deluge over Transmission? (which is what I’ve always used since the whole uTorrent controversy)

Deluge can work in client-server mode, which is great if you have an always-on home server, but use the client on your laptop. No need to worry if you can suspend your laptop or go away, the torrents will download and/or uninetrrupted. This is also great if you want to seed the iso images and lower your distros' hosting bills, and not just "hit and run" (download and stop).

Transmission can also spin up a server that can be controlled over an API

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by e3bc54b2 »

lapser wrote: post #14

What's really cool about Deluge is that it can run in a client/server mode where the Deluge can act as a thinclient. This way you can set up a server, and install Deluge on all your machines, and have them all connect to the same server. As with many other torrent clients, there is of course also a web ui, as well as various thinclient apps. Having said that, if you don't need a good client/server model, my personal…

qBittorrent has webUI too, and works more or less identical to that of native client. Some day I'll get its NixOS module in abetter shape and just use that.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by HideousKojima »

Deluge still hasn't had an official Windows release for 2.x, and it's been that way since 2019. Been using qBittorrent for a while now and like it far more than the (currently outdated) version of Deluge I had been using. Not really sure why this was posted here to be honest.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

#18

Post by pkhamre »

Is torrents still a thing? Genuinely curious.

It looks like a cool piece of software with lots of nice features, but I mean.. I don't need, as far as I know, a client-server stack for downloading stuff.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by e3bc54b2 »

cercatrova wrote: post #4

qBittorrent is in my experience nice as well. I especially like the feature to download something sequentially, so that you can stream it via a media player, much like how Netflix or Popcorn Time works.

qBittorrent is indeed nice. Been using it for many years and couldn't be happier. Demise of uTorrent was a boon for open source clients in a way, otherwise I'd never look for replacement. qBittorrent is also written in Qt, so fits very well with Plasma desktop in general.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by Fronzie »

edgyquant wrote: post #13
senko wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Deluge can work in client-server mode, which is great if you have an always-on home server, but use the client on your laptop. No need to worry if you can suspend your laptop or go away, the torrents will download and/or uninetrrupted. This is also great if you want to seed the iso images and lower your distros' hosting bills, and not just "hit and run" (download and stop).

Transmission has a web interface and can be ran as a daemon.

Transmission also has the client/server model, where the local UI can connect to a transmission running as daemon.
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