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Switched from uTorrent to QBitTorrent (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I tried grabbing Qbit and all I could find was malware. I used to be so so good at navigating all this stuff and stopped to stream for a little. ☹️

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

sudo apt install qbittorrent

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

sudo pacman -S qbittorrent

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

flatpak install org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

sudo dnf install qbittorrent

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

home.packages = with pkgs; [
  # ...
  qbittorrent
];

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

winget install --id=qBittorrent.qBittorrent -e

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Scoop install qbittorrent

choco install qbittorrent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

scoooop!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Doesn’t sound like you were looking in the right places

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The best executables with malware actually perform the function you expect them to.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

You're not wrong but that's not the point here. QBittorrent doesn’t have malware which means they got it from the wrong source.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How tf you managed that I will never ever understand......

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I am not a clever man.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The official website with downloads is the first hit on Google...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

yay qbittorrent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Emerge -v qbittorrent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What OS do you have? If Windows, it is available in the Microsoft store.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Let's be real, that's the last place anyone would look for a torrent client