Switched from uTorrent to QBitTorrent

Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 209 points –

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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There are a handful of features that I really like with qbittorrent but there were plugins I can’t find replacements for from Deluge:

  • having items deleted after meeting seeding requirements, as *arr auto imports, but having exceptions for private trackers
  • the above without having the *arr stack have a permanent warning
  • auto adding public default trackers to any public torrent

I’ve switched back and forth a few times and I run them side by side but let deluge take the reins of most of it because I have it set up to be hands off with the above.

If anyone knows how I can set up qbt the same way that would be great though

auto adding public default trackers to any public torrent

qB already has that, see Tools / Options / BitTorrent / "Automatically add these trackers to new downloads"

I don't use that feature but it seems to be there.