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?
Article is from 2015 with the torrent makers reply update that such systems come from third party install packagers, not theirs.
I have been using the client for years and nothing happens unless it is downloading something. This is simply false.
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
I wish they supported their MacOS client
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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.
Qbittorrent really showcases why open source software really is peak software performance (or the potential of it)
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
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.
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.
Years behind the trend, uTorrent is dangerous.
