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Are there any good alternatives to Transmission on OS X?

RTorrent https://pmukhanov.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/installing-rtorre...

Text console based, so it can run headless and/or in the background in a screen/tmux session.

I've been using rtorrent for years and I wouldn't ever suggest anything else. It's just so damn simple and reliable. I love the concept of watch directories too. Upload a torrent file to a specific directory, and the data will be downloaded to a specific directory. You can have multiple watch directories for different types of data.

Note that rtorrent is no longer supported by homebrew[1]. You'll have to build it yourself with gcc since it can't be compiled with clang.

[1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/369

Transmisson can also run headless.

qbittorrent?

http://www.qbittorrent.org/download.php

No HTTPS?

(Given that the original post was about compromised downloads this is a bit ironic)

> ... a bit ironic

Not really, since HTTPS wasn't even a factor in this case.

Deluge is pretty good, that's what I tend to go for.

I like Deluge, but I really wish its default API (protocol) wasn't so difficult to use. It's bencoded Python objects as far as I can tell. If you've never heard of bencoding, that's because it's only used by Deluge.

The .torrent file format itself uses bencoded fields.

Ah crap. I meant rencoded. https://github.com/aresch/rencode

This may be overkill for some people, but if you have a VPN and use docker somewhere at home you can check out this container: https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn

I run it on a really old low-power PC and it's been very nice...I can even access it remotely wherever I am.

I like aria2 from https://aria2.github.io. I use it on the command line, but there is a web interface at https://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2.

qbittorent is my choice on Windows, and it has an OS X version.

Seed box, even if its for totally legit linux isos.

Deluge is nice.

uTorrent

http://www.utorrent.com/

Only if you want an interface filled with ads.

Pay for it then? Netflix scratches my entertainment itch now, but prior to it launching in Australia I almost went ahead and paid for uTorrent. It's a good, lightweight client. Software that works well deserves to be financially supported.

qBittorrent is just as good and free, why pay for something that's maybe a few MB smaller? Do you really not have gigabytes of RAM on your machine? If you don't, I suggest spending that money on RAM.

> Pay for it then?

Why? qBittorrent does a better job and it's open source in case you need to modify it.

Some peoples tastes are broader than the mainstream American TV on offer by Netflix

The parent comment was suggesting paying for uTorrent to remove the ads, not paying for Netflix. (Although paying for subscriptions to overseas services might also be an option.)

Not only the apps's interface, but in my experience it also installs adware as browser extensions.

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