Using qBittorrent is there a way to skip downloading junk files

Right-click (giggle) the torrent, select

• Advanced
• Set download location...
• pick the location where the loaded files are now at
• Click OK

After you've selected the new download location, force uTorrent to check it by clicking:

• Advanced
• Force re-check

For pure daemon usage on a headless server, rtorrent would be the client I would go to. It's command-line and very feature complete, although it's not the easiest thing to set up being purely command line. There are numerous web interfaces to rtorrent as well, although, again, they don't seem to be very easy to set up.

For GUI clients, I prefer qBittorrent because it works very well and has a good interface. It has a web interface, too, although I currently do not use it.

Deluge is alright, but when I was using it 2-3 years ago I found it would stall constantly and the performance was significantly less than other clients. I cannot say if this is true today, however.

Transmission works pretty well, but always seemed very bare-bones to me.

My personal experiences with the devs and admins on the uTorrent forums (I found them insulting, foul-mouthed, condescending, arrogant, and self-entitled) have led me to wholly shun the program. I no longer recommend it on any platform regardless of how mature uTorrent is. Indeed, I tend to recommend anything else.