Switched from uTorrent to QBitTorrent

So a bunch of people in this subreddit told me that uTorrent was trash and to switch to QBitTorrent.

I didn’t think much of it. How could one be so much better than the other? They’re both just torrent downloaders.

Holy shit was I wrong. I don’t even really understand what is happening, but downloading torrents on QBitTorrent is so, so, so much faster and I don’t even understand how.

A movie downloads in basically seconds compared to 10 or 20 minutes on uTorrent.

Why is this? What is this magic? What makes QBitTorrent so much faster?

pineapplelover, (edited )

Utorrent kind of went really downhill and sold itself. Nobody should ever use utorrent anymore

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-VEB4NLGMM

Tldr; bittorrent bought out utorrent and started putting ads in the client

Untitled4774,

There are a handful of features that I really like with qbittorrent but there were plugins I can’t find replacements for from Deluge:

  • having items deleted after meeting seeding requirements, as *arr auto imports, but having exceptions for private trackers
  • the above without having the *arr stack have a permanent warning
  • auto adding public default trackers to any public torrent

I’ve switched back and forth a few times and I run them side by side but let deluge take the reins of most of it because I have it set up to be hands off with the above.

If anyone knows how I can set up qbt the same way that would be great though

tordenflesk,

qbit_manage

Untitled4774,

Beautiful! Thanks so much

brickfrog,

auto adding public default trackers to any public torrent

qB already has that, see Tools / Options / BitTorrent / “Automatically add these trackers to new downloads”

I don’t use that feature but it seems to be there.

speq,

The third should be possible with this maintained fork:

github.com/c0re100/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition

TunaLobster,

github.com/jerrymakesjelly/autoremove-torrents

skydivekingair,

I tried grabbing Qbit and all I could find was malware. I used to be so so good at navigating all this stuff and stopped to stream for a little. ☹️

prole,

yay qbittorrent

Ashiette,

sudo apt install qbittorrent

Oha,

sudo pacman -S qbittorrent

Spearman3618,

flatpak install org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent

Oha,

sudo dnf install qbittorrent

null,

The official website with downloads is the first hit on Google…

ardi60,
@ardi60@reddthat.com avatar

winget install --id=qBittorrent.qBittorrent -e

tordenflesk,

Scoop install qbittorrent

choco install qbittorrent

Octopus1348,
@Octopus1348@lemy.lol avatar

What OS do you have? If Windows, it is available in the Microsoft store.

MomoTimeToDie,

Let’s be real, that’s the last place anyone would look for a torrent client

DebatableRaccoon, (edited )

Doesn’t sound like you were looking in the right places

Serinus,

The best executables with malware actually perform the function you expect them to.

DebatableRaccoon,

You’re not wrong but that’s not the point here. QBittorrent doesn’t have malware which means they got it from the wrong source.

Shimitar,

Emerge -v qbittorrent

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