[smegel]

Pity we will never see a genuine version of uTorrent that will support it. That was a real loss.

[vanderZwan]

We have plenty of good open source alternatives now. qTorrent works fine

[smegel]

Thanks I haven't hear of that. And it is written in C++ which is nice.

Is it considered the spiritual successor to the original uTorrent?

[nyolfen]

it is:

>The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent.

though in my experience it is more of a memory hog and buggier than utorrent. but that doesn't stop me from using it

[lucasverra]

I've switched to transmission client and never looked back (4 yrs ago)

[phire]

It's nowhere near as perfect as utorrent once was. But it's pretty good and I have plenty of extra memory (it's currently using 305mb while seeding 40+ torrents, dropping down to 65mb if I pause them all.)

[lmm]

I wouldn't be surprised if qbittorrent predates uTorrent; Wikipedia says it dates to 2006. But it wasn't popular on windows until uTorrent started doing dodgy things.

[vopi]

I love qtorrent. They even have built in torrents search for various sites like TPB and Linux isos ;)

[StreamBright]

Sorry I am not sure why is that. Would you mind explaining?

[kyberias]

uTorrent used to be really efficient, small memory-footprint, full featured bittorrent-client. One of the best software I've ever used to download... perfectly legal content [1] from the internets.

Now it's full of ads and performs poorly.

[1] Like all the different Linux distro install images over and over again.

[pwg]

Take a look at rtorrent: https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent

It fits the efficient, small memory-footprint and no ads requirements. "Full Featured" is subjective as it depends upon what you consider "Full Featured".

[kyberias]

Full featured means that it efficiently implements all the bells and whistles of the most recent bittorrent protocol. And only that, nothing extra.

[pdimitar]

I found qBittorrent to be very adequate and full of good options to provide you granularity on how would you like to manage your upload traffic.