Transmission 3 or qBittorrent on Debian? reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- patrik67 · 2023-10-02 12:16 What do you think about these clients? Which do you prefer and why? Which is better in terms of performance? (cpu/ram) Which one has more features? Please answer only if you have tried both clients on Linux. [View Poll](https://www.reddit.com/poll/16xv4g8) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PornStuntman · 2023-10-02 12:26 I'm just curious why transmission 3 over 4? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- snk4ever · 2023-10-02 12:35 That's what Debian 12 provides. Until next weekend there is a memory leak in Transmission, so that's a point in favor of qBittorrent. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cakee_ru · 2023-10-02 13:05 tried both, still prefer Deluge (both web or native). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TheSmashy · 2023-10-02 13:16 I run qbittorrent on a headless raspberry pi with a USB HDD and openvpn with my VPN service, it works great. I seed everything forever, some things have a ratio over 200. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MyTechAccount90210 · 2023-10-02 13:47 What are you using it for? Transmission on docker in a gluten stack is the best way I've found if you have an infrastructure to support it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Spuxilet · 2023-10-02 13:55 The one with more features will be worse for performance (cpu/ram) I use transmission as it's the lightest torrent client i found. It ran on my MIPS 1 core 450 MHZ router without problems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AnyNameFreeGiveIt · 2023-10-02 13:58 qBittorrent with [https://github.com/WDaan/VueTorrent](https://github. com/WDaan/VueTorrent) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RushTfe · 2023-10-02 14:14 You can dockerize it, and install the one you prefer, unless you don't want to use docker for your reasons ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DistantRefaktor · 2023-10-02 14:23 qBittorrent. Better UI and feature set. Transmission 3 since it lacks a lot of features. qBittorrent. Special mention: Deluge, but the UI isnt as clean as qBittorrent ---------------------------------------------------------------------- somebodyknows_ · 2023-10-02 14:30 Raspberry 4? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ibreti · 2023-10-02 14:33 I have years of experience using all of the popular torrent clients, on Linux. Both on my media server at home, and on rented servers abroad. Transmission is great for low end systems and it chugs along no matter how many torrents you put in. It's way more resilient than every other client when we're talking about the sheer number of torrents it can handle. It's only beaten by rTorrent with no webUI. However, Transmission is absolute garbage when it comes to performance and torrenting speeds. It chugs along, sure, but expect for a download to finish 3-4 times slower on Transmission than on qBittorrent. Even worse if you download more than one torrent at a time. I'm talking at even less than 1 Gbps speeds, Transmission still cannot handle it and will not max out your connection consistently. This is the biggest flaw of the client. If it had comparable performance to qBittorrent & Deluge, it would have been the best client to exist. But oh well. As for qBittorrent, it does use more RAM and CPU than Transmission sure, but it's performant, and unless you try to add 30k torrents on one instance, you'll be fine with the webUI as long as you limit your viewing experience of torrents to categories. With >10k torrents loaded in qBittorrent's webUI, you don't want to be viewing the All tab. It'll try to load in info for everything and that'll cause massive hangups. As I said, you can mitigate this heavily by categorizing torrents. qBittorrent also has lots of third party tools that help you manage the client, and there's a very active community of people using it even on very high end servers. Overall, I'd suggest you use qBittorrent unless you're on a low-end system or you want to dump 50 thousand torrents on one instance. In that case it'll be rTorrent with no webUI, or Transmission. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- snk4ever · 2023-10-02 14:43 Well usually when there is a Debian package available, I just use the Debian package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sarkyscouser · 2023-10-02 14:47 This, qbittorrent with gluetun all in docker ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RushTfe · 2023-10-02 14:50 Yeah I get what you mean. I prefer to have it dockerize because, before I knew docker, my son's ended up being a chaos of installed stuff, uninstalled stuff, etc... Now I prefer to just put a container and the day I don't need it, just delete it, and my main so remains clean. That's also because I'm not too versed in Linux, I'm absolutely sure someone with more expertise than me could keep his system clean without the need of a docker container ---------------------------------------------------------------------- snk4ever · 2023-10-02 14:57 I've been hosting with Debian for 12 years, almost managed to keep it clean :D I reinstalled from scratch 3 times when changing hardware. I use docker for a few services where it's just much more convenient but for basic single software I run on Debian packages. Home assistant, Paperless-ngx, influxDB, Mealie are on docker. I want to move my Ampache to docker also because then I can get rid of mariadb in my main OS and should be able to do upgrades more easily. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RushTfe · 2023-10-02 14:59 That's exactly what I meant. Someone who does know what is doing would keep his system clean. But that someone isn't me yet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kearkan · 2023-10-02 15:40 Transmission has such an odd UI to me. qBittorrent reminds me of utorrent before it went to shit on windows, felt like coming home when I set it up the other day. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ZeltasGotSteez · 2023-10-02 16:16 Deluge is so much simpler and easier to understand at a glance when managing many different torrents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cakee_ru · 2023-10-02 16:33 the best thing is that I've been using the web version for like 5+ years and had 0 issues with anything. proxy support is also great to use with tor/vpn with a built in kill switch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GolemancerVekk · 2023-10-02 16:44 > Transmission has such an odd UI to me. Really? How do you mean? I'm not sure I see any major difference between [Transmission](https://repository-images.githubusercontent.com /32189655/64b32980-a756-11e9-9bd1-89110eed7c55), [qBittorrent](https://blog.desdelinux.net/wp- content/uploads/2019/12/Qbittorrent_4.2.0.png) and [Deluge](https://i.stack.imgur.com/v2LRf.png). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lucassou · 2023-10-02 16:47 I second this, very nice UI and really great download performances. i haven't tried the others in a while but qbitorrent always seemed more responsive and fast than the others. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kearkan · 2023-10-02 18:07 I am so confused by transmission looking like that. My wife has it on her Mac and it's nothing like that, all it shows is the progress bars and everything is in a right click menu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TinyMicron · 2023-10-02 18:11 I've liked qBittorrent better when I've used torrents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TheSmashy · 2023-10-02 18:22 3B+, works just fine for torrents. Getting files off the pi via Samba is a bit slow, but not unbearable. Wouldn't waste a 4 for this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sjveivdn · 2023-10-02 18:22 Definetly qBitTorrent ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Crazy-Hall8823 · 2023-10-02 18:25 SABnzbd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GolemancerVekk · 2023-10-02 18:49 Oh I see, [you mean like this](https://www.techworm.net/wp- content/uploads/2019/12/Transmission-for-Mac.png). Yeah the Mac version is special. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sshwifty · 2023-10-02 20:02 Something I am not seeing other people mention is that where you download from might also limit the client choice. Transmission and Deluge are frequently banned (or earlier versions are), depending on indexer. Probably not a big deal, but I would double check before committing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AmateursPls · 2023-10-03 03:48 I don't know why but I always use transmission on linux, but always use qBitTorrent on Windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AmateursPls · 2023-10-03 03:51 >It chugs along, sure, but expect for a download to finish 3-4 times slower on Transmission than on qBittorrent. Even worse if you download more than one torrent at a time. Well that's simply not true at all. I'm in awe of your ability to speak so factually and authoritatively while stating something completely false. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AmateursPls · 2023-10-03 03:56 >qBittorrent reminds me of utorrent That's by design, qBitTorrent was built with the sole intention of being familiar to uTorrent users without any of the dogshit adware. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ibreti · 2023-10-03 04:05 Okay. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kearkan · 2023-10-03 08:25 Ah, yes, I didn't realise they were so different ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Drak3 · 2023-10-03 11:36 I use qBittorrent bc I like it's interface better (especially after applying a dark-mode ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gr8dude · 2023-10-04 13:03 Do you also have a "killswitch" that shuts off torrenting if the VPN is not up? Can you describe your setup? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ayyworld · 2023-12-28 18:10 All you have to do is bind the adapter in qbittorrent's advanced settings to the adapter that you VPN creates. Possible with both OpenVPN and Wireguard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Woof9000 · 2023-12-29 17:42 I used Transmission (mostly) for over a decade on all my Linux machines. I've setup seedbox on Debian VPS with Transmission, twice, latest one is still running. Over that time I've spent probably at least few full days optimizing it and trying to fine-tune it for better and, most importantly, more consistent performance. After all the experience I had with it, I believe I can safely conclude now: Transmission is a dogsh!t, pardon my french. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ibreti · 2023-12-29 17:53 Yeah, it's not a good client if what you're after is speed & performance. It handles large amounts of torrents well, and uses very little resources. But that's all it's really good for. It lacks the kind of third party tools that qBit has, for example. Such as qbittools. Transmission also lacks proper categorization, you have to have a really weird folder structure in order to achieve some kind of "label" support using a thin client like Transgui. Since I do not host tens of thousands of torrents, I think qBittorrent is overall the better choice. Transmission will literally choke and not even be able to saturate my 500 Mbps connection if I'm downloading several torrents at a time. Even if I'm downloading a single torrent filled with seedboxes as peers, Transmission can never really sustain high speeds for long.