Seeing the official website states that the client is “barely supported,” I’m wondering, is it worth using a different one?

  • land@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    I don’t have any issues with the Qbittorrent desktop client. I’m also running Qbittorrent Docker.

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      11 months ago

      What is the benefit of running qBittorrent in Docker? Container proxy?

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        11 months ago

        I’m running a media server on my MacBook. MacOS by default doesn’t support split tunnels, so I’m using qBittorrent + VPN Docker container to achieve that. That way, only qBittorrent is using the VPN file, no other service.

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          11 months ago

          Thank you. Appreciate it. Good way to get multiple things done at the same time.

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            11 months ago

            Yeah. If I use the default VPN app, many websites would simply block my IP address, so it’s a good way to separate Qbittorrent from other apps and services.

  • jadedwench [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    I second docker. I do use the docker version on my server, but I use docker on my Mac all the time. I really enjoy not having to screw around and have to go through the process of installing certain things and docker desktop on Mac just works. I pretty much use homebrew or docker.

  • dblsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    It worked well in my experience, no problems at all. I used it for a while a couple months ago until I set the web interface back up on my server.

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    11 months ago

    It works perfect for me except for a weird bug that’s been documented for half a decade but no one is solving.

    The bug being that when your DNS slows down and the connection is cut for a second. The torrent client doesn’t automatically try to restablish connections you actually have to restart the client to get your torrents going again.