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.
Just use qbittorrent
qbittorrent + mullvadvpn
(on debian 12)
Why Debian 12 specifically?
If you want a free VPN, you can try Riseup: https://riseup.net/en/vpn
There’s qbittorrent for torrenting.
Generally most people get recommended to start their Linux journey with Mint as it is noob friendly (while still having full functionality) other options to consider would be popOS Ubuntu & Fedora.
qBittorrent is the most recommended I’ve seen, although I use transmission.
Why do you use transmission? Genuinely curious. The times I tried to use it, it seemed so basic and lacking functionality
Honestly, whatever floats your boat. There are many good options here, just try all and use the one you liked most. Or just go and pick one, or use the one that comes pre-installed in your distro.
Recommended ones:
- qbittorrent (my favourite as for many other in the comments)
- Transmission
- Deluge
- rtorrent (great if you run a headless server)
I would also look in to I2P. Their are a few clients that support it like qbittorrent.
Deluge and Surfshark VPN
Asus WRT Router > Proton VPN
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ProxMox EV
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Debian 12 Headless VM
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Docker Compose
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Docker Engine
- Unbound
- Pihole
- Prowlarr (for indexers)
- Radarr
- Sonarr
- Lidarr
- Readarr
- 4 Instances of QBit for each ‘Arr
- Jellyfin
- Jellyseerr
- Traefik for SSL/TLS
- Homepage
Kind of a crude & simplified way of putting my setup but I think it gets the point across.
+1 for the WRT router, if you can get a decent device with an enough powerful CPU it can host Transmission
Transmission. Simple, fast, efficient.
qBittorrent
I think it is even heavily used on Windows.
You can torrent easily on Linux using any distro and any client.
It’s very unlikely you’ll have any issues.
qbittorrent
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
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.
