Would you be interested in a qBittorrent-nox/daemon for Windows that can be installed as a Windows service via the installer as an alternative to the full desktop client?

[Pentaphon]

This is an idea from the Transmission project, which allows Transmission-daemon to be installed on a Windows machine as a Windows service via the installer. If you select "transmission-daemon" via the Windows installer, you will get a transmission-daemon Windows service that boots with the OS and you can connect to it with the webUI or any 3rd party UI. Think of it as qBittorrent without the desktop client, always running in the background, invisible to the user unless you connect to it with the WebUI on your browser or any 3rd party app.

The same thing can be done for qBittorrent on Windows but is only easily possible via Linux and Mac as qBittorent-nox. Therefore, we'd need qBittorrent-nox, or something else entirely, to be created as a Windows service and then have it installed via the current Windows installer instead of the full desktop client.

If you are interested in having qBittorrent-nox/daemon for Windows, please thumbs up the original/opening post in ticket #8664

[thalieht]

If you get 10 no and 9 yes we discard this idea forever because the majority decided so?

[Pentaphon]

If you get 10 no and 9 yes we discard this idea forever because the majority decided so?

Why would any feature request be discarded forever unless it has nothing to do with the project? Since this is relevant to the project, the issue remains until somebody decides to submit a PR. I am merely spreading awareness and measuring interest.

[thalieht]

I am merely spreading awareness

In the same repo as the linked issue (pointless).

and measuring interest.

The thumb ups in the issue aren't enough?

Anyway i forgot to add this so here it is: /s

[Pentaphon]

The thumb ups in the issue aren't enough?

Nope. Not everybody in discussions is also browsing 2,800+ issues and coming across a 6 year old feature request that already has a working solution on 2 of the 3 supported platforms.

[userdocs]

The majority of people using nox are on linux based systems and have what they need via package managers or Docker.

I don't think it's a problem to ask for the Windows installer to be able to install one or both methods but people on Windows can do this via Docker anyway and that's mostly preferable for using a VPN setup.

So the idea is OK but it's the wrong target audience to really invest the effort to do this. Very few people really need this and would probably struggle to convince me why over other available methods.

[Andarwinux]

Windows docker is a disaster, which has a mandatory dependency on HyperV and is incompatible with custom WSL2 kernels.

[Pentaphon]

So the idea is OK but it's the wrong target audience to really invest the effort to do this.

I think it's the right target audience because most people on Windows aren't knowledgeable about Docker but they can certainly use an installer to install an always-running Windows service that can be connected to locally or with a browser or any 3rd party app on the network.