• OscarRobin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Transmission is awesome because it’s simple. It only does what you need and has the best UI for doing so.

    • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m caught between the dual urges of “reject tierlist, embrace tradition” and “I’ve been sleeping on over a decade of FOSS torrent client development, maybe it’s time to up my game”.

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        1 year ago

        Nah, someone is just using their torrent client as an F grade *arr and nbz360 solution.

        All the “features” listed as Pros is just bloat.

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          Yeah, I’m comfy with my torrent workflow as it is. I don’t pirate enough volume to make it worth the time to revise something I spend 0.0006% of my overall time on.

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        1 year ago

        I will say, as someone who used rTorrent some time ago to automate torrent downloading and whatnot, it was awesome. I’m glad to see it still going and gaining popularity.

        Stable software doing its job out of the way is what I want.

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      Given the community we’re in, majority of us are power users and transmission is just way too feature light for most of us

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        1 year ago

        if the community we’re in puts rtorrent in C tier because it’s “UNIX only” then you and I have a different meaning of “power users”.

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          1 year ago

          Given I was replying to a comment in a totally different context, sure, whatever floats your boat.

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          1 year ago

          Being a power user does not automatically mean you need to use Linux. Not trying to defend any other OS out there, just don’t like this gate keeping attitude.

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            Being a sports car enthusiast does not automatically mean I hate Lamborghini because I own a Ferrari.

            You are totally right, what I mean is you don’t have to use Linux to be a power user, but despise it it’s not a power user attitude.

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          1 year ago

          I’m supposed to use an extra program to download a torrent in sequential order?

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            Depends why you want it. If you want it to reduce fragmentarion, then just enable fallocate. If you want it to download files in sequence, then XML RPC. If you want file to be downloaded in very inefficient way, then be patient.

            • wahming@monyet.cc
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              1 year ago

              Or, I just right click and select sequential download so I can start watching a movie immediately. This logic of breaking everything down into the tiniest possible bits is how we ended up with ridiculousness like the lpad debacle.

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                Well, torrent client should leech and seed very fast and very efficient, watching videos is not on this list. XMLRPC also makes it convenient and expandable.

                And sequential downloads are bad for swarm, please don’t do this.

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                  Just because your use case is different from others does not invalidate all other use cases.

                  Also, there’s a reason no clients support sequential download as a default option. Having the very occasional download where I would like to start watching immediately upon starting the download is not going to break the swarm, or even affect it.

    • Opeth@lemm.ee
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      And if you wanna put on your naughty shoes you can theme transmission just drag flood-ui files in and tada