Piracy @lemmy.ml Greyfoxsolid @lemmy.world 10 mo. ago

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?

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Among other things, utorrent uses your CPU for some kind of crypto mining scheme.

No joke
- Wow, really? Source?
  
  https://www.pcworld.com/article/432297/utorrent-quietly-installs-a-cryptocurrency-miner-on-users-computers.html
- Classic cryptomining malware smh 😑
I was utorrent user and now utorrent feels bloated and I think I need to start move on. So, qbittorrent is the answer
Years behind the trend, uTorrent is dangerous.
Yeah i ditched utorrent years ago when the installer started being full of shit and adware apps. qbittorrent was how it used to feel
- Man I remember that update. I did hear about it pretty quickly so I never actually downloaded it, but I saw screenshots afterwards of people reacting to seeing the ads and shit, and found qbit to be basically the same thing with a slightly different skin.
  
  I still prefer the look of the old uTorrent (I'm assuming it's very different now) though.
  
  But I stopped using torrents probably within a month of that happening. Haven't messed with piracy since, but things are looking... inevitable.
Qbittorrent really showcases why open source software really is peak software performance (or the potential of it)
I wish they supported their MacOS client
- Try Transmission, it looks more akin to other mac apps as well
  
  Idk what the issue is on macs as QT should work on macs just fine, maybe issues with libtorrent?
  
  Transmission is what I use. It’s at least not as buggy on my new system as it was on the old.
- They do wdym?
Is deluge no good? That's what I use.
- Deluge is fine. Mainly the take away is that no one should be using uTorrent. It's been a terrible piece of software, at best and likely malware , for what feels like decades.
- Nothing wrong with Deluge
- Deluge is fine, it's less featured than qbittorrent and it's based on a different frontend framework (the "q" in the name is for QT and Deluge is GTK), but it is a perfectly safe piece if software.
did the same a few months ago..couldn't keep up with utorrent's shenanigans..it's full malware at this point..the core software was good however i miss it

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