Conversation

Notices

1. 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 01:02:52 JST 寮
   The torrent client rankings are in, and of course the best client is number 1!
   Good to see that the pirate (or Linux/BSD depending on what you use torrents for) community is still as based as it has always been. https://social.076.moe/url/28907
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 07:30:13 JST Terminal Autism

     in reply to
     Is rTorrent really that good? I used Transmission, but ended up using qBitTorrent because Transmission wasn't checking files correctly. I found multiple unfinished downloads with broken files, that were marked as 100%, and even manually telling it to check the files didn't work, so I had to delete the broken files and restart the download. Seems like it was caused by closing the client while there were downloads in progress. I was hoping that Transmission 4 fixed that, since it's a total rewrite. Maybe I should try rTorrent, though, and see if it does that.
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 08:37:44 JST 寮

     in reply to

     • Terminal Autism
     rtorrent is a TUI application.
     It takes some configuration and getting used to, but once I started using it, I never went back to Transmission again.
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 10:55:59 JST 寮

     • konataismywife
     I just use rtorrent-ps, it's basically like regular rtorrent, but with colors, so you won't get your brain paralyzed from looking at how far your download is completed.
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 12:10:17 JST Terminal Autism

     • konataismywife
     There's also an Emacs front-end (Mentor), just like there is one for Transmission. Of course there is, I'd be more surprised if there wasn't. Says that it's still incomplete, though.
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 12:14:25 JST Terminal Autism

     in reply to
     I'll use it. Seems like less of a gamble than going back to Transmission after waiting for the rewrite. It probably checks files correctly. Also, I just remembered why I didn't try it. I installed it at one point, but it came without a man page, so I didn't even bother. Isn't it great when distributions package software with no documentation at all?