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[-] wahming@monyet.cc 11 points 1 year ago

Given the community we're in, majority of us are power users and transmission is just way too feature light for most of us

[-] pascal@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

if the community we're in puts rtorrent in C tier because it's "UNIX only" then you and I have a different meaning of "power users".

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 3 points 1 year ago

Given I was replying to a comment in a totally different context, sure, whatever floats your boat.

[-] uranibaba@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Being a power user does not automatically mean you need to use Linux. Not trying to defend any other OS out there, just don't like this gate keeping attitude.

[-] pascal@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Being a sports car enthusiast does not automatically mean I hate Lamborghini because I own a Ferrari.

You are totally right, what I mean is you don't have to use Linux to be a power user, but despise it it's not a power user attitude.

[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

CLI controls are the ultimate power user feature :)

[-] Zekromaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

If you need extra features you use extra programs which are tailored to those features. Unix philosophy.

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 3 points 1 year ago

I'm supposed to use an extra program to download a torrent in sequential order?

[-] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Depends why you want it. If you want it to reduce fragmentarion, then just enable fallocate. If you want it to download files in sequence, then XML RPC. If you want file to be downloaded in very inefficient way, then be patient.

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 4 points 1 year ago

Or, I just right click and select sequential download so I can start watching a movie immediately. This logic of breaking everything down into the tiniest possible bits is how we ended up with ridiculousness like the lpad debacle.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Well, torrent client should leech and seed very fast and very efficient, watching videos is not on this list. XMLRPC also makes it convenient and expandable.

And sequential downloads are bad for swarm, please don't do this.

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 2 points 1 year ago

Just because your use case is different from others does not invalidate all other use cases.

Also, there's a reason no clients support sequential download as a default option. Having the very occasional download where I would like to start watching immediately upon starting the download is not going to break the swarm, or even affect it.

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