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sanitation@lemmy.today to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Popular Linux torrent client Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission" to "solve a longstanding disagreement between the Transmission maintainers on whether or not to add more maintainers."

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Popular Linux torrent client Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission" to "solve a longstanding disagreement between the Transmission maintainers on whether or not to add more maintainers."

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sanitation@lemmy.today to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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Why has the project been forked as 'retransmission'? · transmission transmission · Discussion #9031
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  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    Oh gosh, the bickering.

    • apftwb@lemmy.world
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      A core feature of any mature FOSS project.

      • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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        As a maintainer, you can just ignore it most of the time 👌😎

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        Well at least one aspect is mature

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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      I’m not sure I like your attitude, so I’m starting my own thread down below and everyone else is welcome to join me there.

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        😆👌

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    Fucking nerds, man. Why can’t we learn to work together!?

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      Forking this comment because it didn’t include a reference to me.

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      Probably autism for a solid portion of them. Some form of neurodivergence for nearly all of them.

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    Bonkers that its the default on many distros instead of qbittorrent

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      it’s qbittorrent, not gbittorrent. that’s really why.

      transmission has been the default on so many gnome-based distributions for a very long time because of its gtk frontend… it also has a qt frontend, curses cli, daemon, windows qt build, and native mac versions…

      qbittorrent also runs on more than just linux, but is qt. only qt. how many qt-only applications find their way into the default package set for gnome or gtk desktops released by debian, ubuntu, mint, fedora, redhat, suse, etc, etc.

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        Yeah, I much prefer cli front ends over web ones as all my torrent boxes have been headless. I realize with most client server archs I could connect via gui but still I prefer cli.

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      It does what it used to do 15 years ago and it does it well. The arr-stack tried to make me use qBittorrent. I said no and did it with Transmission anyway.

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        Qbt likewise has been doing it for 20 years and doing it well 🤷

        Works great in my friends arr stack

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    https://github.com/retransmission/retransmission link to fork

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    Why does anyone use this over qbit?

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      It’s lightweight, open source, and does exactly what it’s supposed to.

      I kind of legacyed my way into it. It was the first thing I grabbed after uTorrent went to hell decades ago.

      What is the advantage of qbit over it?

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        Qbittorrent feels a lot closer to what uTorrent used to be, while Transmission has more of a Mac-style simplicity to it.

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        Removed by mod

      • comrademiao@piefed.social
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        My main point of concern is most of my indexes often ban versions of transmission but I never see that for qbit.

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      I don’t often use BitTorrent at all, but Transmission is certainly the first client that comes to my mind, probably mainly because it came preinstalled with the distros I used when I was new to Linux (Debian and Ubuntu in the late 2000s). Not sure what advantages there are either way.

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        That makes sense, qbit was the first recommended to me too.

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      Tried both, qBittorrent is much heavier on the CPU just sitting there idling. I do have a large amount of torrents, maybe over 200, and I didn’t expect to notice such a difference.

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      It works great headless on my server. It does what it is supposed to do without any bloat that I would not use anyway.

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        Headless means no GUI is it? How do you go aout getting used to these programs

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        • whaleross@lemmy.world
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          Do your mean how I use it? With a remote client and other services use the RPC API. How to get used to it? Being a lifelong nerd?

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    That is pretty good.

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    longstanding

    long-standing

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      They’re both correct. This is akin to correcting somebody because they’re using British / American English and you’re using the other.

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      It’s a direct quote of the guy who forked.

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        Fork you!

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