Varia Is A Download Manager On Steroids
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Varia is a download manager that supports videos and torrents on top of just regular files, and with a variety of advanced features wrapped inside an easy to use interface.
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In the early 00's I used to use a download manager simply because it could restart a download. On 56k that was a god send when you're trying to download a file that's a couple hundred mb.
Same, FlashGet I think is what it was called that I prefered mostly.
guessing he never dialed up the 53333
I've used flashget on windows but on Linux switched to jdownloader2. Recent days it was just wget -c lol
You mean it could continue I guess.
jDownloader comes to mind.
As far as I remember back in the days the internet connection was slow, unstable, big files (several megabytes) were not very easy to download and the web browsers didn't support the redownloading of already partially downloaded files. The download managers were away to fix those problems.
R e get was really a saviour at those times.
Was thinking the exact same. I am surprised DT never had these issues. Back in the days download managers were a must.
I hope UA-cam won't nuke this video for mentioning a YT downloader.
One important piece that I don't think it was mentioned (let me know if I missed it) is that Varia is open source, using Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
Knowing dt, i doubt he would ever promote closed-source software
@@user-ks1oh2wx6o He promoted Kaspersky for Linux, which is not just closed-source, but a literal spyware
Yup, aria2 is a great cli download manager and these various GUI managers for it are very powerful as a result. We use the cli version in our AI projects so my users can download things quick. The one breaking issue I have however is the filenames it chooses when it saves, when I download from Huggingface it somehow renames that to the SHA256 filename in these UI's rather than what I want to save it as.
Yo DT - this is amazing - I've been looking for a tool like Varia to download videos/audio. Normally I use some web app that look a bit suspect; this looks like a good solution. Thanks for sharing
I've used download managers in the past. They were especially useful in the 90s, the days of bad, slow internet connections and primitive (and downright crappy in some cases) web browsers. Corrupt downloads were common those days, especially with the POS that was Internet Explorer. You'd still sometimes get incomplete/corrupt downloads with a manager, but at least they seemed to be less frequent. For the last few decades I download most things using wget. I like the option of preserving the timestamps of files, which helps to know when, for example, a Linux ISO was built, or when a Windows EXE file was made. Before Linux, aside from some brief time using download managers, I've usually downloaded files directly from the browser.
wow this is sooo useful, Thanks DT!
Cool, does it import the Cookies automatically with Brave?
I remember Windows 9598 times and wget software❤ Modern or first DSL/ADSL connections; - very unstable and expensive.. WGET can start download, resume or check errors, download chunks from various sites/BBS/FTP.. yeah ;)) Varia have very usefull options i see, thanks for showing that!
I remember on dial up days, download managers were just way better at maintaining a download. The browser would give up if it was taking too long, and the download manager were more likely able to resume an interrupted download (in my experience). On dial up downloading anything took way too long, so I would just queue them up in a download manager overnight. You could also set priorities and such. With faster internet, this is less of an issue (I don't use one anymore). But when I have to download several large Linux ISOs, I do think a download manager would be helpful. Though I tend to torrent those in any case so...
tested & like it. thanks a bunch..
Hey DT this is like day 10 of asking for an openBSD review
If it gets a Qt version and native distro packages someday I'll have a look at it
Sorry I'm not linux guy.
Is there way around for windows?
How to get it ?
Thank you, sir!
Hey DT, gret video as always! If you have the time, could you take a look at Alpine Linux? especially the edge branch...
@DT, shoutout for Gopeed. A neat download manager available for all platforms.
IDM is the goat
So basicly a reduced uget. I like uget more, because you can specify download categories, for example I created a category „music“ which will download the file to a specific directory I have chosen. Uget also can observe you clipboard, if its detecting a specific file IRI it can automativally download it. And some other features. Sadly uget is not under development anymore. It would have been better to modernise uget instead of developing an complete new program doing basically the same but worse. =(
Ah yes, I started using a seperate download manager instead of the browser integrated one to be independent of the browser and also I didnt like the look and functionality of the Firefox one because that one was just really basic.
Also recommend uGet, especially when I want to throttle some larger downloads so as not to max the bandwidth on an Internet connection when I know others might also be using it. Installed it shortly after switching to Fedora Linux as the main OS on my main PC a couple months ago, as I was thinking that a download manager might be handy. Varia looks nice but it seems a bit too simplistic for my needs, though that might appeal to some users as well. As for torrenting, I still prefer to use qBittorrent as I can specify it to stay locked to my VPN connection, whereas I'm not sure if that could easily be done under Varia.
is Varia on par with IDM?
not really, as a previous IDM user I recommend ab-download-manager, it feels more familiar
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ill try it to see if i really do need a windows partition to have the gog galaxy for my downloads
Thanks 👍
I personally would love to see good TUI download manager. If a decent one exists, I am unaware of it.
I don't understand the use case for this type of software. There are browser extensions that to the same without need to go to a desktop app
Why should everything done by the browser or ugly, fat browser plugins that dont work anymore after some major browser update? Too much stuff in the browser slows the browser down.
@ because there are extensions that just work and don't break making the process simpler.
yt-dlp integration alone make it useful, there is no extension that have even 10% of the power of yt-dlp. And it integrates into the browser, redirecting all the downloads into the app automatically. If you don't find a use case is because you don't need it, but it is a good app for what it does.
You may look AB Downloader.
I rarely need to download most things are one offs like isos seems like the browse do manager handles most of what I need
I use persepolis
Yeah, I really don't see what the point of this but hey cool, I guess...
Yeah, let's copy and paste and put it to another program...
Installing it rn
Hey dt please share ur dotfiles of ur wm
The extension doesn't work for me in Brave, but over all, the app is cool.
It have less feature than even some older dm
03:52 100% Google/UA-cam is gonna remove this video.
I prefer ab-download-manager
Web browser download managers are horrendous
The web plugin is just worst
why?
Wow how... useless? Why have a one click when you can copy past a link in another application?
Wow how... Useless? Why comment when you could have kept your mouth shut?
I don't really get the utility either. Maybe if I had slow/unstable connection, but I never have that anywhere.
Does this program protect from heat damage though?
its gtk tho
Your browser with different downlad manager ext plenty of choice no use for this program
why not wget?
Because it doesn't have a gui?
DT, you're out of your freakin' mind if you think I'm going to sign into my YT account with a 3rd party program.
These comments baffle me there so disgusted that people wanna throw links into a wondow so they all download neatly at the desired resolution :/
Bro almost all download managers do the same thing
Man, I was kind of disappointed. I was expecting a pamac alternative lol.
D.E.I. free distros please. Debian and Arch are unfortunately eat up with it.