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lemmy.world

Qbittorrent has a killswitch for safety so it can stall all the downloads if you lose connection to your vpn. That's the killer feature for me.

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Yep, you can alternatively just bind it to wg0 or whatever your VPN network adapter is.

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qBittorrent definitely. Free and open source, no adult/betting ads that you have to pay for an ad free version if you don't want to see them, not installing adware either.

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Vik
lemmy.world

I find Deluge to be a nice, cross platform client. The Windows version was finally bumped to 2.X. The client has integrated VPN functionality but I'm not sure if that's really a big deal for today's landscape

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lemmy.ml

I like Deluge. It is what uTorrent used to be.

I just need a cli-friendly equivaltnt for RSS support for my seedbox.

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lps2reply

Deluge has a JSONRPC API that you can just call from curl or there is a CLI client deluge-console

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qbittorrent has it's own internal search with plugins, and also can connect with jackett. this way you can search torrents from inside qbittorrent directly.

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Go for Transmission and forget about anything else. Open source, loaded with features, super light on ressources.

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gonna add to the pile and say qBittorrent. feature-filled and FOSS, absolute perfection.

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Everyone's said qBittorrent, and I agree. I found myself using an old build of uTorrent for a very long time (2.2.1, I believe). I finally realized it was probably a risk being so far behind. qBittorrent feels like old uTorrent, before it got extra bloated and scummier. It also adds a lot of features. Truly, qBittorrent is the answer you're looking for coming from uTorrent.

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