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.

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?

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.

A core feature of any mature FOSS project.

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.

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.