The Best Torrent Client for Linux

There are a lot of torrent clients like Azureus, uTorrent, BitComet, Bit Tornado and many more! Biggest problem is that most of them are created for windows. Linux users, don’t have such choice of torrent clients. Azureus, Deluge or maybe BitTorrent is enough for you!

BitTorrent

First of them is built in (Ubuntu) BitTorrent. Its very simple and basic program. Lunching file, selecting destination path and that’s it! Its showing some basic info’s and its giving you ability to limit download speed. Its enough if torrents aren’t something you do 24/h, just from time to time.

Azureus

(based on 5.0.4 version) is next torrent client. It’s popular for windows. Just write this command to get it:

sudo apt-get install azureus

That’s it, it should be at your disc now. Go to Applications-> Internet -> Azureus to lunch

Its very advanced software.Showing every data you need and sometimes you don’t. That’s why Azureus need a lot of you PC’s resources. Its based on java so you need it as well. Its using 45mb of your sys memory, that’s a lot. The reason for that is Azureus has many options out of the box that might be simply useless for standard users but required for all of you with need of full control and power.

Deluge

The last one is Deluge (based on 0.5.8.3), that’s gaining more and more users. Installation:

sudo apt-get install deluge-torrent

applications -> Internet -> Deluge BitTorrent Client

Its written in python and is very soft for your PC, using just 10MB of your ram. Everything is very clear and completed by wide selection of add-on’s.Its very stable and intuitive. Deluge works just great for casual user. For all of you that need more, you can install add-on’s that suits you.

Verdict

BitTorrent, this client is enough only if torrent isn’t something you care about and you are downloading 1 torrent per month.
Some of you need more, in this case-everything try Azureus as it has most of functions but remember that you need powerful PC to handle this client!
On the end there is Deluge that simply works, has all options normal user need(expandable by add-on’s) and uses 1/4 of your ram compared to Azureus.

Just go with Deluge, in most cases it will satisfy you.