Transmission v4.0

Re:Transmission v4.0 by arkadiyt on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @12:42AM (#34704570)

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 decided to use this excellent open source command line client instead:

https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent

It has a few frontends built on top of it (linked in the project readme), but I just run `torrent download <magnet link>` and it downloads at full speed / with no issues.

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Re:Transmission v4.0 by capableweb on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:58AM (#34705033)

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/

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Re:Transmission v4.0 by arkadiyt on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:17AM (#34705156)

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.

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Re:Transmission v4.0 by eatbitseveryday on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:45AM (#34705308)

I am actively trying to use it on macOS/M1 and it does have bugs. Random crashes every few days, UI crawling (doing anything, right click, whatever) with more than 20 torrents, etc.

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Re:Transmission v4.0 by dt2m on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:08AM (#34721864)

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.

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Re:Transmission v4.0 by stevenrj on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:06AM (#34705085)

I encountered a similar issue on my M1 machine in the 4.0 betas. I went back to 3.00. Hopefully this has been fixed in the final release.

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Re:Transmission v4.0 by dmix on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:10AM (#34705112)

I just downloaded Transmission 4 via Github and it works on my M1 Macbook. I previously had problems with beta versions as well, so I guess they addressed that.

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Re:Transmission v4.0 by anacrolix on Thursday February 09, 2023 @01:00AM (#34720273)

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