uTorrent is adware

QBittorrent has been my torrent Client for 4/5 years at this point, never having problems. It works on my Steam Deck too (Arch).

Utorrent kind of went really downhill and sold itself. Nobody should ever use utorrent anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-VEB4NLGMM

Tldr; bittorrent bought out utorrent and started putting ads in the client

UT has been garbage for some time. I reckon the data it uses to send your info back to them and to load ads, bogs down the network, especially on slower networks. The last time I used it, there were also graphical artifacts all over. Qbit on the other hand, is much cleaner and simpler to use, and it doesnt add any unwanted network traffic, which is why it’s probably faster

I don’t know if uTorrent does ratelimit torrents someway (they shouldn’t be by theory), but it being adware is enough of a result to switch to another torrent client.

I’m more of a fan of Deluge, but alternatives like qBittorrent / Transmission are solid choices.

I do miss that really detailed block download page, but that’s only cos I’d watch it instead of doing something useful with my life.

I’m assuming you mean you were using one of the older, “safe” versions of uTorrent. But yeah, the technology has updated. It’s better.

qbittorrent also has better theme support in my opinion. Dracula theme is even available for both the local client and WebUI server client: https://draculatheme.com/qbittorrent

I switch from uTorrent to qBittorrent when Ninite dropped it. I wasn’t aware that uTorrent had become aware, and Ninite had my back. I trust those guys with the selection of softwares they offer.

I have had the same experience switching from deluge to qbittorrrent. It’s like, another world.

uTorrent doesn’t play well in the landscape of the modern bittorrent protocol. It’s also adware, infringes upon your privacy, and is a malware risk.

qBittorrent is my client of choice, but other popular and great clients are Deluge (only up to ~500 torrents), transmission, and rtorrent (on Linux). There’s other clients as well but YMMV, especially if you do any private tracker usage.

uTorrent has been down the shitter for over a decade now, I wouldn’t be surprised if the download speed was throttled without a pro subscription. It could also be a difference in how the applications discover seeds, or how much CPU time or memory is allocated to downloads.

As a general rule, if an application is full of anti-features, it tends to have better, usually FOSS, alternatives.

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

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. ☹️

I prefer Transmission, as they have Windows ports as well.