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Transmission v4.0

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Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by jxf »

Transmission is like if UNIX CLI design was applied to product interfaces: do one thing (okay, it does a few things) and do it well.

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by tjex »

Reason077 wrote: post #129
revskill wrote: post #104

On the Mac, this is the only working bittorrent client for me. The uTorrent client moved to the web is simply broken.

qBitTorrent ( https://www.qbittorrent.org ) works great on Mac.

only worked a few times for me. tried a lot of different configs... was just always stuck retrieving the metatdata. Transmission worked straight away and has continued to behave just the same since. very happy with it!

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by mindwork »

Reason077 wrote: post #129
revskill wrote: post #104

On the Mac, this is the only working bittorrent client for me. The uTorrent client moved to the web is simply broken.

qBitTorrent ( https://www.qbittorrent.org ) works great on Mac.

I disagree. I was using that because it had RSS integration. Since then - RSS integration got broken for me.

Also there is something wrong with their scheduler/thread performance. Any time I add any torrents to the downloads, GUI starts to pause for multiple seconds at a time. At this point it's unusable unless you are willing to wait multiple seconds for any action that you want to do. I don't know whats wrong, but it shouldn't happen on Mac

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by galad87 »

newaccount74 wrote: post #122
haunter wrote: post #107

I use it but I don't like how the app language = system language, you can't change it >It's not technically challenging to add a drop-down list of languages to the UI, as least for the Qt client, but I'm still not convinced it'll be used by a lot of people. https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/1152

Almost all Mac apps work this way. All apps use the global language and region settings. It would be against platform conventions to override the system settings, and in my opinion it's a waste of developer time to add such a setting in the app (especially because that popup needs to be tested, maintained, localized....). If you really want the app to use a different language than the system, you can just override th…

It's possible to select a preferred language for each app in System Preferences / System Settings since macOS 10.15 (or 10.14? anyway since some years ago).

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by sltkr »

dmix wrote: post #89
nishs wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

s/torrent/pirate? context for unaware: torrents are more general. for example, official releases of open source operating systems, such as debian [1], are available via torrents. [1]: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-dvd/

I'm pretty sure HN users know what torrents mean. Context does the rest.

All the more reason not to conflate copyright infringement with the BitTorrent protocol.
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