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No! I am not pirating, I am just downloading Linux distros. 

 

On uTorrent, I get a ton of warnings from Malwarebytes because of the Ads. Is there a better alternative? 

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qBittorrent

 

Download it via ninite.com to prevent any bloatware or some shit

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There is always bitTorrent

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qBittorrent

 

Download it via ninite.com to prevent any bloatware or some shit

 

There is always bitTorrent

 

I will try them both. Thanks for the help.

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I will try them both. Thanks for the help.

bitTorrent is the same as uTorrent,just with a purple team.

There's also Deluge.

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No! I am not pirating, I am just downloading Linux distros. 

 

On uTorrent, I get a ton of warnings from Malwarebytes because of the Ads. Is there a better alternative? 

 

I am a fan of Vuze

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google will show loads, I however like Qbittorent and I hear Vuze is pretty neat.

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Bit torrent is god that's what i use for my legal needs ;)

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qBittorrent is the free open source alternative to uTorrent.

 

I like Transmission. It's also on Linux. 

I prefer qBittorrent over Transmission on Linux as well. Reason for that is Transmission has very limited functionality.

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I use Vuze! 

also qBitTorrent!

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I use Bitcomet.  Thinking of trying Tribler though.  Anonymity, no central servers, available on Win, OSX and Ubuntu.  Sounds good. 

This could very well be the future because without a central server they'll have a darn hard time taking that down.

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Tixati is my favorite

 

NO ads and a lot of setting options.

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qBittorrent is the free open source alternative to uTorrent.

 

I prefer qBittorrent over Transmission on Linux as well. Reason for that is Transmission has very limited functionality.

 

Can you expand a bit on Transmission's limited functionality? What does qBitTorrent do that Transmission doesn't?

Why the i5 over the FX-8350?

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Vuze is quite nice, but be aware that thing is basically adware if you just blindly install the thing. Preferably I like qbittorrent better, but I'm too fond of using Vuze.

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Can you expand a bit on Transmission's limited functionality? What does qBitTorrent do that Transmission doesn't?

For starts you cannot choose which files you want to download and which you don't with Transmission. It's been feature requested for years now while being rejected by the creator. On top of that much you cannot regulate individual download and upload speeds per torrent among other small quirks that make it a deal breaker for me. I don't want to download 50 GB of data just for a 250 MB file that I want from the torrent. Besides it's easy to install qBittorrent on Ubuntu and set it up to use as default for magnet links.

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For starts you cannot choose which files you want to download and which you don't with Transmission. It's been feature requested for years now while being rejected by the creator. On top of that much you cannot regulate individual download and upload speeds per torrent among other small quirks that make it a deal breaker for me. I don't want to download 50 GB of data just for a 250 MB file that I want from the torrent. Besides it's easy to install qBittorrent on Ubuntu and set it up to use as default for magnet links.

 

My version of Transmission (2.84) allow doing all of that.

Why the i5 over the FX-8350?

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My version of Transmission (2.84) allow doing all of that.

The one that ships with 14.04.1 LTS doesn't (2.82). There's more features it's lacking other than them few but I wanted to point out just a few for starts. There's plenty of additional features including automated exit and system shutdown on torrent completion that I use in qBittorrent.

 

Not a big fan of its usability and lacking interface as well. Here's a side by side comparison.

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The one that ships with 14.04.1 LTS doesn't (2.82). There's more features it's lacking other than them few but I wanted to point out just a few for starts. There's plenty of additional features including automated exit and system shutdown on torrent completion that I use in qBittorrent.

 

Not a big fan of its usability and lacking interface as well. Here's a side by side comparison.

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Yeah, I forgot the version of transmission in 14.04 is truly horrible and an enormous pain in the ass to set up with a decent interface. The one in 12.04 was great. I'm currently using Redmond's crap as my OS though since I built a gaming PC.

Why the i5 over the FX-8350?

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I've been using Deluge for the better part of a year now.  A lot of people have compared its' UI to uTorrent 2.2.1, back before uTorrent became the steaming pile of shit it is today.

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No! I am not pirating, I am just downloading Linux distros. 

 

On uTorrent, I get a ton of warnings from Malwarebytes because of the Ads. Is there a better alternative? 

Vuze is a good one

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