I have a router I’m running nord vpn but I use bitTorrent on windows and I’m looking to switch. Does anyone have a flavor of Linux and program they use?
Any advice would be helpful I’m getting nowhere on forums.
Deluge is another good client – I’m not sure why but its defaults gave me much better download speeds than transmission or qbittorrent
rtorrent, you just need an ssh connection if wanting to know remotely what’s going on
You can torrent easily on Linux using any distro and any client.
It’s very unlikely you’ll have any issues.
As far as flavors of Linux, I would honestly recommend using VirtualBox while on Windows. You can download a preconfigured VM of just about any Linux distro or download whatever iso you want and install in a VM. This gives you some freedom to play around and break things (and you probably will at least once) and get more familiar with the different desktop environments, software installation, command line, searching for how to do things etc.
qbittorrent.
This; Linuxserver Qbittorrent docker with gluetun to make sure all traffic goes through your VPN.
I don’t use docker, so I just set the interface to the tun0 or whatever in the qbittorrent config.
Linux Mint OS, QBitTorrent for the client, Proton VPN for the VPN with qBitTorrent bound to only that interface and port to ensure no IP leaks.
Works Awesome.
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qbittorrent
Did qbittorrent have memory leaks for anyone else? From time to time I’m forced to kill it because it’s make my pc unusable. Still my torrent client of choose, but I would like to know if this is something someone else experienced.
ive not experienced that in the almost 10 years of using it on multiple debian based distros
Never experienced this.
When I had memory leaks with software, the fault was usually old OS.
I just run rtorrent with vopono/openvpn in a tmux sesession on a raspberry PI. It can be a bit of a pita getting utmp working though.
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I didn’t mention a VPN service. Openvpn is a client/server application, not a service. Vopono is an application that let’s you tunnel a single application through a VPN.
I also don’t disagree with the mod’s reasoning, so… have a nice day I guess.
Why do you agree with their censorship and lying?
qBittorrent! You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.
Was using Deluge before on Windows and for a while when I switched to Linux but started having issues with it.
You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.
Huh. Well, that’ll make things easier.
qbittorrent + mullvadvpn
(on debian 12)
Why Debian 12 specifically?
Just use qbittorrent
I use qBitorrent with no VPN because my ISP don’t give a fuck of what I’m doing with their data
Where do you live?
SE Asia
I torrent a lot on Linux and use Qbittorrent. Surfshark has a great VPN on Linux.
If you want to get into it then Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and nzb360 ($10) with Jellyfin is a great stack to manage your library but needs a bit of work to set up. You can then use the phone to download and search and watch it with an android TV app.
I had some issues setting it up with a ublue fedora immutable distro which are pretty non-existent on most standard distros.
Surfshark
Please don’t use Surfshark
What’s wrong with Surfshark?
I use i2p for torrents exclusively. It’s slow but totally private so I can seed without needing to mess about with a VPN.
There is a slightly smaller community but the people on there have similar tastes to me: linux textbooks, GOG games, jazz albums, etc.
Transmission. Simple, fast, efficient.
