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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by jeffhuys on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:01AM (#43268359)
I went to Transmission years and years ago because it's just simple. It has all the options if you need them, but no HUUUGE interface with RSS feeds, 10001 stats about your download, categories, tags, etc etc etc.

Transmission is just a small, floating window with your downloads. Click for more. It fits in the macOS vibe. But I'm a person that fully adopted the original macOS "way of working" - kicked the full-screen habit I had in windows and never felt better.

Can I ask, why would you go FROM Transmission to qBittorrent?

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by petecooper on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:17AM (#43268599)
>why would you go FROM Transmission to qBittorrent?

In my case: some torrents wouldn't find known-good seeds in Transmission but worked fine in qBittorrent; there's reasonable (but not perfect) support for libtorrent 2.0 in qBittorrent; my download speeds and overall responsiveness is anecdotally better in qBittorrent, and; I make use of some of the nitty gritty settings in qBittorrent.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by jeffhuys on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:32AM (#43268816)
Well there's a list of good reasons! Thanks for answering. I haven't had any problems with finding seeds, and no need for libtorrent but now I know how to fix that when I do encounter those situations.
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