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I've never understood why anyone who is tech savvy would use a closed-source BitTorrent client, especially if they plan on using it to commit copyright infringement. There are open source alternatives, like deluge (which is cross platform and has a remote client feature that's splendid) or rtorrent (a great little ncurses client for *nix).

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The best client that I have used so far is by far Transmission for *nix systems. I learned about it when I got my first mac, and now it makes for a lovely headless seedbox.

The web UI is also really nice and simple.

I think the reason I use Transmission over rtorrent is that it seems to allow you to "eat" stuff that you put in a blackhole, which is rather nice.

Wait what?

I believe there's a client called qttorrent or qtorrent that's meant to be an open source clone of utorrent. I've not tried it out though.

[EDIT] Found it, it's http://www.qbittorrent.org/

I'm using it extensively on Xubuntu and I think it's awesome. I can only recommend it. When reading the title, my first thought was to pimp it here...

I consider myself relatively tech savvy but I never heard of deluge. Thanks for that info.

Deluge would probably be helped by making it dead easier to download like uTorrent.

utorrent > Go to utorrent.com, site automatically figures out what OS I have > click download button to save it.

deluge > Go to deluge-torrent.org > click on download button > select operating system > go to a different subdomain/domain altogether to figure out which version to download.

Try qbittorrent. It's really nice.

It seems the author of rtorrent doesn't want to add highly important features like manual addition of trackers among other things.

Deluge was buggy last time I used it (about a year ago). Lot's of potential though.

I use Deluge as my only client, accessing a Linux daemon instance of Deluge from a Linux client and a Windows client. The only issue I occasionally encounter are errors in the final download, but that's easily fixed by forcing a recheck.

I've been using uTorrent out of old habit. Thanks for putting me onto Deluge.

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