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?
uTorrent is adware
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.
And alternativeto.net is the place to find them alternatives
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.
Ya, my only issue with Deluge is after ~500 torrents it starts to slow. I’m on private trackers, so I always tend to have ~2,000 torrents seeding at once. For my particular usecase, it simply becomes too slow and bogged down to be viable.
Granted, I’ve not used Deluge in some 2 or 3 years; maybe they improved process handling since then? I’d love to be corrected if so.
Hmm, not sure. Ive been on deluge for a while but ive used QBT before. Might be time to benchmark again
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
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=GS6uWKCO_S8
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
TIL I’m the only one who says “microtorrent”.
I always thought that was what everyone said, as that’s actually how it’s spelled. I wasn’t even aware it was called different by some or even most people, although I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised as I can imagine many people not knowing the greek alphabet.
The “u” in uTorrent is actually [greek letter mu](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(letter\)), which as a SI suffix is pronounced “micro” and means one millionth (10^-6)
