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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Anybody got a nix config for binding qbittorrent to mullvad easily?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I would also look in to I2P. Their are a few clients that support it like qbittorrent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If you need a daemon (to always run in the background, like on a server), use Deluge or Transmission.

If you just need a basic client that can live in your systray, qBittorrent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You can torrent easily on Linux using any distro and any client.

It's very unlikely you'll have any issues.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Weird thing to downvote, this is how I tested Linux since if I broke something or wanted to try a different distro I just deleted the VM and tried another. It's way more annoying to distrohop once you've installed a system to your machine that also has all your files and configs set up.

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