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Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by Reason077 »

mindwork wrote: post #134
Reason077 wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Weird, it's always been fast and responsive for me - I haven't noticed any pausing issues. Never tried using RSS, though.

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by Reason077 »

tjex wrote: post #133
Reason077 wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

I did use Transmission up until a few years ago. Forget exactly why I switched, but there was some issue with it at the time. qBittorrent has worked great ever since, and I certainly never configured anything more complicated than speed limits.

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by WirelessGigabit »

BuckyBeaver wrote: post #79
graton wrote: post #3

I kind of thought the project was dead with how long it went without a release. I ended up switching to qBittorrent about 8 months ago as I needed v2 torrent support. So far I have been very satisfied with the switch.

Every time I try a new Transmission release, I remember why I deleted it last time: NO PROXY SUPPORT. Ridiculous.

Docker & VPN all the way.

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by anacrolix »

arkadiyt wrote: post #15

For whatever reason the ARM version of Transmission does not work well on my M2 laptop - it downloads quickly at first and then drops off to zero, and had some other bugs (the x86 version always worked flawlessly). I tried playing around with different settings, running their nightly builds, etc, and nothing fixed it for me. In the end I searched for other clients and found them all filled with ads and bloatware, and…

:)

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by mrtesthah »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #147
wpietri wrote: post #4

> The entire codebase has been migrated from C to C++. In the process, we've removed thousands of lines of custom code and used standard C++ tools instead. The core's code has shrunk by 18%. The core codebase has been extensively refactored to be more testable and maintainable. I love negative-LOC commits! They warm my heart. As do the people who take the time to make them.

Program size has not shrunk though. 3.9M static binary for 2.84 9.0M static binary for 4.0.0

It's a universal binary.

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by gottacodethem »

srcreigh wrote: post #148
capableweb wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not a fair comparison, rewriting anything in any lisp will dramatically reduce the amount of cruft, both lines of code and complexity.

A lot of those dropped lines of code is gonna be lines which only contain }.

replaced by lines of )))))

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #147
wpietri wrote: post #4

> The entire codebase has been migrated from C to C++. In the process, we've removed thousands of lines of custom code and used standard C++ tools instead. The core's code has shrunk by 18%. The core codebase has been extensively refactored to be more testable and maintainable. I love negative-LOC commits! They warm my heart. As do the people who take the time to make them.

Program size has not shrunk though. 3.9M static binary for 2.84 9.0M static binary for 4.0.0

NB. I compiled these myself on Linux with musl and gcc.

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by dt2m »

arkadiyt wrote: post #42
capableweb wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After uTorrent went south, I started using qBittorent on all platforms and haven't looked back since. Found it better than any alternative, might want to give it a try if you want client+ui in one package: https://www.qbittorrent.org/

I wanted to evaluate it in the past but their downloads page has a giant warning, "The macOS version is not well supported", so I didn't bother downloading it.

The GUI is buggy to say the least, but the actual torrent transfers are faster in every step of the way compared to Transmission 3.x in my testing.

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by addandsubtract »

squarefoot wrote: post #149

Related: the Transmission Remote GUI that allows to control the client from elsewhere. I use it with the Transmission client contained in the XigmaNAS NAS software which I run headless. https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui

The release notes say, "The remote control GUIs (transmission-qt and transmission-web) now use the RPC API "table" mode, resulting in smaller payloads / less bandwidth use.", but the GUI hasn't been updated in 3+ years, so what is this referring to?
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