How y’all feel about Tixati? I like it and think it’s great
The fact that it’s proprietary is a deal breaker for me.
Proprietary software for torrents?
What about tixati ?
It’s good, but it’s aggressive ability to download sequentially has banned it from a lot of private trackers. On public trackers it’s great because you can start watching something within seconds of queuing it.
But if you use tixati, do seed more than usual since tixati strains network with its sequential downloading. Or better yet, use it only and only when you need to start watching something within seconds of queuing it.
I know.
docker+VPN+transmission ftw.
We had problems with qbittorrent on Linux where it was leaking our IPV6 addresses, we ended up switching to Transmission instead. At the time, it also seemed that qbittorrent is Windows first and that there wasn’t feature parity. Has that changed?
Yeah, I ditched my first private tracker because they enforced use of uTorrent. Kickbacks I assume. I’ve heard they don’t anymore, but I still consider them compromised.
Could have been inertia. uTorrent used to be pretty good a long time ago.
You can also run qBittorrent in a docker container behind an always on VPN. Very nice for those with a little arr in their lives. 🏴☠️
1000% this. Get on a private tracker and setup your glutun/qbit docker container and you never have to worry about your ratios or bring had by the feds. It’s so nice. My jellyfin setup with Seerr gets a lot of traffic from my whole family. All of it is running on second hand hardware from office e-waste auctions that I’ve spent maybe $250 on over the last 4-5 years. Way cheaper than paying for all the subscription streamers. And I got to learn a fuckload of cool stuff I never would have otherwise.
Yes qbittorrent and gluetun in a docker container is very handy.
It took me a while to figure out gluetun. Once it’s all setup and configured correctly, it’s great !
thank you for introducing me to gluetun, this comment made me search it up and what a cool project!
Any resources you found handy to get you going? I am getting started with Docker and would love any advice!
The official documentation of the thing you want to setup is usually the best source of information.
This was the setup I had recently, but recent versions of gluetun just couldn’t maintain a connection. I tried with three different VPN providers and they all dropped connection within 12 hours.
You can run qBittorrent outside docker and configure it to only bind to the network interface for the VPN (in Tools->Options->Advanced->Network Interface).
Unless for some strange reason your VPN connection is constantly renaming the network interface when it starts, this should work fine and make sure qBittorrent never sends any data outside the VPN connection.
This is Linux, so there’s usually more than one way to get the same result.
My torrent client is running in docker on my NAS, so running it outside of docker is a no-go. I switched back to my old setup of using a docker container that combines both qbittorrent and openvpn in the same container. Smooth sailing with no hitches at all. I can’t share the VPN across containers anymore, but qbittorrent was the only container that actually needed it.
Maybe I’ll get it working one day. Today is just not that day.
It’s stacked, even.
I’ve been using a split tunnel to make sure qbit stays behind the VPN, but I like this idea too, feels like there’s some redundancy.
I actually run two instances of gluetun running two VPN seats configured for two different countries and a script that speed tests both every hour and switches what network is piped into qbit based on how fast the speed test was with some logic for if I am uploading more or downloading more on the client. Quite proud of it tbh.
You can lock qBT to a specific network adapter in the settings. I think it’s somewhere in the advanced settings. Lock it to using your VPN interface, and it will only be able to connect when your VPN is active. By default, it will attempt to use any active network to connect, and things like split tunnel or kill switches can still allow leaks in the few moments between a disconnect and the software killing other connections. But by locking qBT to a specific network adapter, you ensure it won’t even attempt to use alternative connections when your VPN is disconnected.
For maximum privacy, I have qBittorrent on an air gapped system. Good luck catching me FBI!
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I took the above setup one step further and never plugged in the power!
This also means you can run multiple instances very easily. I personally run one instance for public trackers, then an entirely separate instance for private trackers. It makes managing private seeding rules much easier, and helps avoid accidental hit-and-runs because of a dumb misconfiguration.
Alternatively a server-only qBittorrent (controllable via the web-interface only) without docker (package: qbittorrent_nox) behind an always on VPN, configured to only bind to the network interface of the VPN so that it doesn’t send any data outside the VPN does the same but it’s much lighter so you can put it in shitty-shit hardware.
This is what I have in the cheap mini-PC which I use as Homeserver/NAS/TV Media Player.
Holy shit. Utorrent is still around??
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
uTorrent has been compromised for years. I like Transmission for its simplicity.
I run Deluge for the same reason. AutoRemovePlus plugin and a couple others go a long way and just like Transmission it has a web-ui for remote management, so I can VPN back to my home network and manage deluge from my phone’s browser.
100%. I stopped using them a very long time ago after they changed their UI to what it is now. I realized then it was compromised because the UI no longer served a useful purpose and instead prioritized visuals and engagement.
It’s interesting how a UI overhaul can be a red flag. Recently for me it was Bitwarden’s overhaul a little while back with all the cute emoji like graphics and rounded corners and stuff
Proton vpn is next on my chopping block.
Nice, I’ve been looking over alternatives for exactly that myself. Let me know if you find a good one. This world sure is in a state
Yeah nearly 20 years I think. It’s not open either. If you can’t figure this out god help you rawdogging the internet with torrents.
It’s been malware for at least a decade, I think. It was good when it was first released but quickly went downhill.
i’m pretty sure version 2.2.1 was the last version before the corporate takeover and malware was baked in
Barely using either anymore.
*arr stack all talks to RealDebridClient just as if it were qbitorrent and it proxies torrent through debrid provider.
Thats how prowlarr gets all my Linux distros.
Linux+Transmission master race represent
Got Linux and Deluged running on a Raspberry Pi myself.
Yes! Via tremc
What about Deluge?
Deluge is awesome but it uses more resources than other alternatives. As another poster mentioned it also struggles with torrents with many files.
It’s a good client unless you’re into archiving giant torrents with thousands of files. Deluge can’t handle them, actually most clients can’t.
qBittorrent and BiglyBT can and that’s about it.
Don’t forget about rTorrent.
Was looking for this comment as I have been using deluge for a LONG time.
Man I remember pivoting from uTorrent to Deluge forever ago, then swapping from that to qbittorrent
What a blast from the past
This is a strong claim. Please elaborate.
I think the mining lasted for only a few weeks until they reverted this.
But IIRC the shady stuff started way before 2015 anyway (2010?), with their browser toolbar malware stuff, Conduit etc.
Crypto mining was only the icing on the cake and a small part of the enshittification.
My source: installed it 20ish years ago, worked great for a while. Reinstalled it a couple years later, it crammed down my throat adware, browser toolbars, crazy bullshit apps I didn’t want. That was on windows, but since that experience I wouldn’t even consider using it even if I went back to windows.
I either use Transmission or FDM
