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Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by bobsmooth »

pkhamre wrote: post #18

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.

Of course torrents are still a thing...for linux isos. The completely legal sharing of linux isos.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by hoseja »

pkhamre wrote: post #18

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.

Uh, why wouldn't they be?

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by eimrine »

pkhamre wrote: post #18

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.

But as a client, you have to pay somewhat for that server. And by the way it is one of coolest pieces of software ever. I wish client-server stack to be dead in favor of all kinds of torrents and blockchains.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by BayAreaEscapee »

roblogic wrote: post #6

According to the forums it's still fairly average on MacOS. Think I'll stick with Transmission.

I agree with this. I use it on both Mac and Windows. The Windows version works pretty well: no major problems. But the Mac version has all kinds of quirks. The most annoying is that somehow it gets into a bad state where it won't even launch, and the only way to fix it is to find its hidden configuration file and delete it.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by notRobot »

HideousKojima wrote: post #17

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 Been using qBittorrent for a while now and like it far more than the (currently outdated) version of Deluge I had been using.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.

I'm in the same boat as you. Used Deluge for years and was a huge fan, continued to use it for a couple years after the Windows version stopped getting updates, but last year ended up switching to qBitorrent and I'm very happy with it.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by 27182818284 »

forlorn wrote: post #26

Nothing against it but I always wonder what leads to posting a link to a website out of the blue sky. No news, no releases, just a link to a frontpage.

I'm with you. I was actually expecting a message about it being hacked or something similar to when Transmission had malware added to a version of it.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by robrtsql »

pkhamre wrote: post #18

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.

One reason (probably the main reason) to use Deluge, with its client-server stack, is you can run the server on a “seed box” which will allow you to manage your torrents on a server which is always up (and always seeding, when needed) from a client which is not always online (your laptop, for example). This is extremely useful if you are part of a private tracker community where users are required to seed the things that they leech.
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