transgui

Not much money and bandwidth if you aren't on a metered connection. You can share tens of gigabytes or more on a cheap read only flash plugged into into a $25 single board computer that draws way less than a full PC and can be left sitting there near the router. Just limit its bandwidth on the torrent client and you won't even notice it during online gaming. The client can be as small as the Transmission daemon running headless on one of the many Debian based embedded distros: all control through either the web interface or from its client: no monitor, mouse, keyboard etc. just a small cheap box. https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product... (just an example, as it's way overkill for the task) https://transmissionbt.com/ https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui

That UI may make some sense on mobile where a finger, which is bigger than a mouse pointer, must operate bigger controls comfortably; but on desktop? Nope, old interfaces win over "modern" ones any day. For example, down that page there's a Transmission remote GUI screenshot (I use it as Transmission here is a daemon on my headless XigmaNAS server). https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui What would be wrong with it or anything similar? Every information is just there, no need to swipe left and right to read information that has been either hidden elsewhere or, worse, taken away. The same applies to many "old" clients such as QBittorrent and others. I understand that design is important, but it should never ever win over functionality.

Related: the Transmission Remote GUI that allows to control the client from elsewhere. I use it with the Transmission client contained in the XigmaNAS NAS software which I run headless. https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui

Actually, not such a bad question, if worded poorly. There's at least Synapse[1]. It even has a third-part broker to accept transmission GUIs by Drew DeVault[2]. Why didn't they just reuse Transmission protocol from the get-go, to leverage the great Transmission-Remote-GUI[3] for example, is beyond me. Unfortunately, there's just not enough interest in the project and no adoption. Transmission, at least previously, never have been too resource-friendly, so a lean and mean Rust alternative would be great. 1. https://github.com/Luminarys/synapse 2. https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/broca/ 3. https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui

If someone asks me to install a Torrent client on a single machine, my favorite would be QBittorrent, however at home I use XigmaNAS' Transmission client extensively, and operate it from other machines in the LAN using the Transgui interface (also available on Windows and MacOS). This allows me to turn off everything but the NAS, which with all RAID disks spun down and a TDP of 15 Watts makes for some good energy savings. https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui

There's also the Transmission Remote GUI, which is a nice GUI for remotely controlling the Transmission daemon, on say, a NAS: https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui It's great for keeping downloads going overnight without having to leave all the power-hungry devices powered on.

Support in the browser would require the browser to stay on the whole time, along with the computer. Bittorrent clients are better run on small less power hungry boards (RPi, etc.) or on hardware that is meant to be running 24/7 anyway. For example, I run the Transmission daemon on my XigmaNAS home file server. The NAS is headless, but I can control the daemon through its remote GUI, so as soon as I click on a torrent or magnet link on the browser, it calls the local Transmission GUI which sends the info to the client on the NAS which starts the download freeing the browser and the PC of any further work. https://xigmanas.com/xnaswp/ https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui

so instead of native like https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui I get "electron" cross-platform, "only available for MacOS" I think you should "sell" it more...

You mean https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui or another gui? You should be able to connect remotely, that is pretty much the entire idea behind transmission. A torrent daemon with various UIs that use the API.

Though I use Transmission on my NAS4Free box, which I control remotely through the excellent transgui program (https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui) I also install qBittorrent to all Windows/Linux users asking for a client for it being very stable and consistent among platforms, the latter very important for newbies, but I see now they're porting Transmission to Windows as well. Good! I don't consider closed source clients for security reasons, or bloated ones (Vuze etc.) because I'd rather use a spare GB of RAM to make a filesystem more snappy than to load a Java environment that eats alone half the resources of a small server.