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Lubuntu version or windows version (using wine)?


DaDiRa

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I wonder which of these is the best choice. It's be an ease for me to just install the windows version of uTorrent using wine, but I'm concerned. Will  it work as well as the Lubuntu version (or maybe better?) and will it slow down my system more than the Lubuntu version? Which one should I choose and what are the differences? I want the lighter one.

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It's been quite a long while since I used uTorrent on Linux, my motivations for using the Windows version were the GUI (instead of going through the WebUI) and at the time the RSS support in the webui was crap. Might still be crap but I haven't tested it since moving away from desktop Linux. The last thing I heard about it was the API's didn't expose enough functionality.

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Judging by avatar you may download sometime anime aswell. Thus my advise would be - if you want to use utorrent and use it everywhere, get windows version. Linux versions report beta/alpha in their user version strings, thus in some trackers that whitelist only stable versions they won't work. For example in bakabt.me (boxtorrents successor. And don't even try to ask to whitelist linux version there. Requests to whitelist beta version may even get banned you from their forums). I tried few times to ask here to fix this (very easy to fix, just by changing reported version and rebuilding binary) usability bug by releasing at least one version marked as stable, but all my posts or messages to devs were silently ignored with not even negative "no, we won't do that, or won't do that until ..", also my tries to edit with binary/hex editor those strings directly in binary didn't succeed aswell, hence i still have to use other torrent clients in parallel for downloading from some trackers. So while linux version works fine, due it not being universally allowed on all the trackers and devs ignoring users .. better not using it at all. Go for windows utorrent under wine or other native linux torrent clients.

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Judging by avatar you may download sometime anime aswell. Thus my advise would be - if you want to use utorrent and use it everywhere, get windows version. Linux versions report beta/alpha in their user version strings, thus in some trackers that whitelist only stable versions they won't work. For example in bakabt.me (boxtorrents successor. And don't even try to ask to whitelist linux version there. Requests to whitelist beta version may even get banned you from their forums). I tried few times to ask here to fix this (very easy to fix, just by changing reported version and rebuilding binary) usability bug by releasing at least one version marked as stable, but all my posts or messages to devs were silently ignored with not even negative "no, we won't do that, or won't do that until ..", also my tries to edit with binary/hex editor those strings directly in binary didn't succeed aswell, hence i still have to use other torrent clients in parallel for downloading from some trackers. So while linux version works fine, due it not being universally allowed on all the trackers and devs ignoring users .. better not using it at all. Go for windows utorrent under wine or other native linux torrent clients.

 

Getting around that isn't that hard but of course there is risk envolved... Also trying to get them to whitelist it right now since the amount of torrent clients that can handle seeding several thousands of torrents at once are very far and few.

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No, i won't even try. Why would i need to get ban again? Their policy of not whitelisting alphas/betas is many years long. Hostility against those that requesting adding clients not adhering to that policy is as long too. Utorrent devs ignoring requests to release at least one linux version reporting stable version string no matter how easy that might be for them also been almost as long. If one wishes utorrent client universally for all trackers out there, windows one under wine is only option and probably will be, as i dropped all hopes for utorrent devs to fix native client. It simply is not an bug/issue for them, nor they care about few narrow niche linux users having problems because of that. If they didn't fix that all these years, i don't see how this year will be special. Thus with this annoyance unfixed native utorrent will never be The client for me, no matter how stable it actually worked, nor it will be something i might advise to others because of possibility to run into trackers with similar non-beta policies.

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