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Deluge has the killer feature of being able to run in client-server mode. You can leave a persistent instance running on one machine and connect to it in adhoc fashion from say your laptop.

To accomplish this with baretorrent or other simple gui client, you have to run it in some vm or make it accessible with remote desktop/X windows. Even then, there is no facility (which Deluge does provide) to click a torrent link in your local browser and have it initiate a download on your remote server-instance.

For a real barebones non-gui option, rtorrent tui client with tmux detachable text session is quite workable even though it too lacks the advanced features provided by Deluge.

EDIT: Baretorrent does offer an extension that allows you to remotely add a torrent, but doesn't give you a full local client as Deluge does.

> For a real barebones non-gui option, rtorrent tui client with tmux detachable text session is quite workable even though it too lacks the advanced features provided by Deluge.

I prefer aria2c for this. Much more agile than rtorrent or deluge-cli if you like the terminal. You can have one instance of the app per torrent, each in its own screen or tmux and it's up-to-date regarding torrent protocol. It also supports RPC but the few webUI I found aren't really good. I was using solely that until I needed to select a few files in a torrent that held thousands. The deluge GUI was more practical to do that.

edit: to be honest, one of the primary reason I drove off away from rtorrent was that I could never remember the key bindings correctly and setting a ratio per torrent to stop sharing wasn't possible easily.

You also have deluge-console a console client to connect to deluge server.

And it's a lot easier to use than rtorrent that has some insane shortcuts you will never remember.

You don't even need tmux/screen as with rtorrent/aria2c, just connect with deluge-console whenever you want, it's deluge server that is doing everything in background.

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