Today, we've curated a list of the best BitTorrent client apps for the desktop and while they have unique features, they are reliable and available for free.
I use deluge mainly because it can easily be run as a daemon inside of a docker container, so I can just let my torrents run unattended on my homeserver, and always protected by a VPN with killswitch.
On my desktop I use the GUI client to connect to the daemon and manage my torrents as if it were local.
I use deluge mainly because it can easily be run as a daemon inside of a docker container, so I can just let my torrents run unattended on my homeserver, and always protected by a VPN with killswitch.
On my desktop I use the GUI client to connect to the daemon and manage my torrents as if it were local.
You can do the same with qBittorrent, by the way.
Yeah, I evaluated both when I chose this solution several years ago. Don’t ask me why I chose one over the other though, I don’t remember.