There is no reason why you couldn't use an older version of uTorrent.
Image credits: Neowin Older version of uTorrent Although you will get all necessary features to download and manage torrents. It has a simple user interface, similar to Transmission. Delugeĭeluge is another popular cross platform BitTorrent client application. It has a simpler user interface compared to qBittorrent, however, it has everything you need to download torrents. I used it with the GTK UI under Linux some time ago. For Windows, it is available as a Qt port, which you can grab from here. It includes GTK, Qt, WebUI, a console user interface for Linux users and a native Mac UI. Transmission is also a very popular cross platform software which features LOTS of user interfaces. Its memory consumption is higher than uTorrent because it is built using the Qt framework but this should not be an issue for modern PCs. QBittorrent has a decent user interface and is stable. I am using qBittorrent in Windows and Linux and can recommend it to everyone for daily use.
qBitTorrent is open source software available for all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, and FreeBSD). I switched to qBittorrent many years ago when uTorrent 3.x was introduced. This will ensure your PC no longer has their crapware installed. Next, check out the following folder: C:\ProgramData\EpicScaleĭelete all files from here if the uninstaller left something there. Go to Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features and see if you have EpicScale listed there.
Older version of uTorrent How to check if your PC has EpicScale installedĪlthough EpicScale installs itself silently, it will be visible in the "Programs and Features - Uninstall a program" Control Panel. However, this kind of sleazy behavior is not acceptable and it is time that you switched from uTorrent to something else. The uTorrent team, in their defense, claim that they have signed a partnership agreement with EpicScale and that is how they generate revenue. Plus, there is no guarantee that it doesn't have some backdoor which makes your PC vulnerable to attack or snooping. Or suppose you installed uTorrent on a laptop, then EpicScale will reduce your battery charge level to 0% very quickly. The EpicScale software can create issues for you by reducing your PC's performance by overloading the CPU.
A company whose goals are using your PC's processing power to "change the world" is by no means trustworthy because you never explicitly opted in to install their software, they installed it silently like a virus or other type of malware would. The Windows ecosystem has had a problem with such unwanted crapware for a long time. EpicScale claims that all profit obtained from such activity will be used to "change the world". They can use it to perform any computations - solve various math problems, physical processes modelling and for Bitcoin mining.
which uses your PC for their own purpose. What is EpicScale? It is an application created by EpicScale Inc. Many uTorrent users have confirmed this fact. It will be installed without any confirmation from you, and the uTorrent installer does not have even a checkbox to avoid installing the crapware. The PPA will keep you updated with any new updates(should they arrive quicker than the 2 years it took the most recent one to).If you are using the latest version of the uTorrent app, you should know that it silently installs an additional software called "EpicScale".
The easiest way to do this is by using the following commands in a new Terminal session: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get install transmission-gtk To install the latest stable release of Transmission on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 15.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS you can add the official Transmission PPA to Ubuntu Software Sources.
Rather than update the preceding post and hope you check back to see if a PPA is available we thought we’d shout about it. In the comments to our earlier article onTransmission you told us you were patiently waiting for a PPA to become available to install it (the new release comes a few weeks too late to make it into Ubuntu 16.04, either). While few new features or functionality is on show, the bump in stability is welcome nonetheless. It brings a number of bug fixes and performance improvements to the popular BitTorrent app. Two years in the making, Transmission 2.90 saw release earlier this week. The latest version of the Transmission torrent client is now available to install on Ubuntu from a PPA.