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Switched from uTorrent to QBitTorrent (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] aubertlone@lemmy.world 72 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

No joke

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow, really? Source?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://www.pcworld.com/article/432297/utorrent-quietly-installs-a-cryptocurrency-miner-on-users-computers.html

[–] BlanK0@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Classic cryptomining malware smh 😑

[–] ardi60@reddthat.com 21 points 10 months ago

I was utorrent user and now utorrent feels bloated and I think I need to start move on. So, qbittorrent is the answer

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago

Years behind the trend, uTorrent is dangerous.

[–] Rand0mA@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah i ditched utorrent years ago when the installer started being full of shit and adware apps. qbittorrent was how it used to feel

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] BlanK0@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Qbittorrent really showcases why open source software really is peak software performance (or the potential of it)

[–] PR3CiSiON@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Is deluge no good? That's what I use.

[–] candle_lighter@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Nothing wrong with Deluge

[–] Pwnmode@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I wish they supported their MacOS client

[–] vildis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Transmission is what I use. It’s at least not as buggy on my new system as it was on the old.

[–] mulcahey@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I use Transmission on MacOS as well, but I wish they would update their UI. I've been using Transmissionic on Windows for that reason

[–] TnF@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

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