Better torrent client for MacOS Sonoma?

Transmission is just giving me more and more problems. Anyone have any recommendations?

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qBitTorrent

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I'm running qBittorrent on my Plex server which runs MacOS. It's been reliable for me.

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- I gave qbittorrent a whirl. It's dynamite. Blows Transmission out of the water.
  
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Try deluge, it’s been pretty bulletproof for me once configured.

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Deluge?

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I use qbit in a docker container which just provides the web UI but it works great for me

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- And in this setup you can fairly easily use gluetun to force all its traffic through VPN
  
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  So this would allow the rest of my system to not have to use VPN while forcing the torrent client TO use VPN?
  
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I use qbittorrent or/and aria2 everywhere

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I've never head a single problem with Transmission on Sonoma, check your system.

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- I've been using it since Tomato died. Transmission chokes on torrents with lots of trackers that fail to connect. If you go in and remove them, its performance and responsive improves greatly.
  
  Outside of those small things, it's solid and a universal app.
  
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  Huh.
  
  I regularly manually add this list of trackers to torrents, I'd say most of my torrents have 120+ trackers in their list. Never noticed any issues.
  
  The only issue I ever noticed is that sometimes the layout of the filter bar breaks, but you can fix it by just disabling/renabling the filters, so just a cosmetic issue that can be fixed with a double click.
  
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Transmission :P

If you're having issues with Transmission most likely the problem is in another thing... like an hard drive or some other piece of software.

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- Nah, Transmission just gets kinda buggy when its loaded with hundreds of torrents. Its fine for light use (or perhaps if you have a ton of RAM). But it definitely gets laggy and occasionally unresponsive after running a few days.
  
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  Tell me something, what's the state of those torrents?
  
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Honestly, what i do is install docker using brew and spin up a saltbox instance on localhost. You can always bring it down by telling docker to stop but it's way better and it's containerized.

edit: let me know if you need help.

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- I know some of those words!
  
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  Lol whatcha need help with?
  
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Deluge never let me down

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The download page for qbittorrent says that MacOS is "barely supported". Is docker reasonably accessible for Mac? You could use that to get qbittorrent.

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- Just try it. If "barely suppoted" gets you the current stability, them kudos to the devs. I haven't had a single crash in recent years. Sure Transmission has a nicer minimalistic UI, but it lacks a lot of qbittorrent's features.
  
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- I have never tried this one because of that lack of support
  
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