I use torrents once in a blue moon for downloading distros so I just grab the nearest thing in the Debian repo but a friend of mine who uses it a lot is asking for a recommendation. I’d rather give him a community approved recommendation than some random top 5 I got from a search.
He’s happy with Fopnu which is by the same guys who did Tixati but while it’s free it’s not open source (from what I can tell), i’m looking for the “best” FOSS app with ethical devs that preferably has a Windows version because he’s still transitioning.
Being lazy I tend to just download a .torrent file, double click on that file and see what opens by default. That’s usually Transmission, but occasionally KTorrent, both seem to work for my simple needs. I think I prefer Transmission because it’s the more common default I come across so it’s what I used the most. 99 out of 100 .torrent files I download are Linux .iso files.
Thank you for all the recommendations, I built on that a bit below. It’s down to choosing between Deluge and qBittorrent. KTorrent gets honorable mention but isn’t cross platform.