Recommendations for torrenting with linux?
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If you want a free VPN, you can try Riseup: https://riseup.net/en/vpn
There's qbittorrent for torrenting.
This post shouldn't have been removed. There's literally an active censorship campaign against free VPNs.
Here is what it said:
If you want a free VPN, you can try Riseup: https://riseup.net/en/vpn
There's qbittorrent for torrenting.
The comment was removed because OP didn't ask for a VPN recommendation. So we're not allowed to recommend VPNs unless someone asks for it?
This is becoming VERY suspicious!
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Deluge and Surfshark VPN
Hey mods! How come you don't remove this post because "OP didn't ask for a VPN recommendation"?
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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.
Sorry, OP didn't ask for a VPN recommendation. Your post should be removed to ensure consistency among moderation.
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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.
OP didn't ask for a VPN recommendation. Your post should be deleted like mine was because you recommended a VPN without OP asking for it.
The mods are actively trying to censor information about free VPNs. There is no evidence to support their argument that RiseUp's VPN service "is not meant for torrenting." It's complete bullshit and it needs to stop now.
I don't know much about them, and I doubt many of you do either. Here's a quote from their "about us" that I guarantee the mods did not read:
"We do this by providing communication and computer resources to allies engaged in struggles against capitalism and other forms of oppression."
Source: https://riseup.net/about-us
Where are the lying mods getting this information that torrenting is a misuse of Riseup's VPN? They must provide evidence to support this, or else there's no getting around the fact that they are spreading misinformation.
This is very suspicious and makes me want to get the message out even more!
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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.
I use BiglyBt on Debian. I use BiglyBt because I previously used Vuze, and I used Vuze because I previously used Azureus. I don't really remember why I went with Azureus originally, but it may have just been because it was popular at that time.
I get the impression most people use other bittorrent clients nowadays, but BiglyBt does what I need it to do.
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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.
Never experienced this.
When I had memory leaks with software, the fault was usually old OS.
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Anybody got a nix config for binding qbittorrent to mullvad easily?
There are 2 methods:
First method is to open preferences in qbit, under Advanced > Network interface, select "wg0-mullvad" from the drop-down menu. The interface might be named something different for you, but it should stand out as pretty obvious which one to select.
Other method is in qbit > Preferences > Connection, under "Proxy Server" select "SOCKS5" from the drop-down, input 10.64.0.1 as the host and 1080 as the port.
You could even do both these options at the same time if you like, there is absolutely no downside. It's like wearing 2 condoms except it feels the same as wearing nothing at all.
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Why do you use transmission? Genuinely curious. The times I tried to use it, it seemed so basic and lacking functionality
It works ? I mean what necessary functionality is it missing ? Magnet link goes in, files come out, happy face.
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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.
I use qBitorrent with no VPN because my ISP don't give a fuck of what I'm doing with their data
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There are 2 methods:
First method is to open preferences in qbit, under Advanced > Network interface, select "wg0-mullvad" from the drop-down menu. The interface might be named something different for you, but it should stand out as pretty obvious which one to select.
Other method is in qbit > Preferences > Connection, under "Proxy Server" select "SOCKS5" from the drop-down, input 10.64.0.1 as the host and 1080 as the port.
You could even do both these options at the same time if you like, there is absolutely no downside. It's like wearing 2 condoms except it feels the same as wearing nothing at all.
Ah, so, I should've been more clear, I have annoying requirements, I want qbittorrent to run through mullvad exclusively, and i want them to be intertwined and startup with eachother automatically. I don't want any of my other apps to be running in mullvad, is there a good way to do that? I think the socks5 proxy requires me to have it open and running, and thus everything would run through it, but maybe that wireguard method works around that? not sure, just wondering
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Just out of curiosity, why bother running 4 instances of qBit for the various *arrs? Why not just use automatic torrent management, and have the different categories download to different folders? My *arrs are all using a single instance of qBit, and each service simply uses a different category with a different download path.
The benefit is that I can see my total up/down speeds, ratios, etc very easily without needing to change to an entirely different instance.
Just out of curiosity, why bother running 4 instances of qBit for the various *arrs? Why not just use automatic torrent management, and have the different categories download to different folders? My *arrs are all using a single instance of qBit, and each service simply uses a different category with a different download path.
I started to become frustrated with the queue on a single qbit instance, I would set the max total of active torrents to 15; 10 active downloads and 5 seeding and it starts out fine but eventually those 10 active downloads all became stalled.
The amount of times I have had to open qbit to just move it down the queue so other things could download was obnoxious so I made 3 other instances for each *arr and it’s felt easier to manage.
Proton VPN claims to offer Port-Forwarding for their Wireguard router configs however, when I attempt to do it they don’t display the active port anywhere on their website.
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OP didn't ask for a VPN recommendation. Your post should be deleted like mine was because you recommended a VPN without OP asking for it.
The mods are actively trying to censor information about free VPNs. There is no evidence to support their argument that RiseUp's VPN service "is not meant for torrenting." It's complete bullshit and it needs to stop now.
I don't know much about them, and I doubt many of you do either. Here's a quote from their "about us" that I guarantee the mods did not read:
"We do this by providing communication and computer resources to allies engaged in struggles against capitalism and other forms of oppression."
Source: https://riseup.net/about-us
Where are the lying mods getting this information that torrenting is a misuse of Riseup's VPN? They must provide evidence to support this, or else there's no getting around the fact that they are spreading misinformation.
This is very suspicious and makes me want to get the message out even more!
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.
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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.
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.
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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?
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Ah, so, I should've been more clear, I have annoying requirements, I want qbittorrent to run through mullvad exclusively, and i want them to be intertwined and startup with eachother automatically. I don't want any of my other apps to be running in mullvad, is there a good way to do that? I think the socks5 proxy requires me to have it open and running, and thus everything would run through it, but maybe that wireguard method works around that? not sure, just wondering
I was in the same boat. I just want the VPN for my torrent client, without it impacting any other running applications/services. Try https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono, which uses network namespaces and has killswitch functionality.
As for Nix, I have no idea.
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I was in the same boat. I just want the VPN for my torrent client, without it impacting any other running applications/services. Try https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono, which uses network namespaces and has killswitch functionality.
As for Nix, I have no idea.
That's actually perfect, thank you so much! I've been wanting to switch from nordvpn because it's ass but i got 3 years for basically free, gonna switch to mull with this as soon as that runs out, awesome!
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Ah, so, I should've been more clear, I have annoying requirements, I want qbittorrent to run through mullvad exclusively, and i want them to be intertwined and startup with eachother automatically. I don't want any of my other apps to be running in mullvad, is there a good way to do that? I think the socks5 proxy requires me to have it open and running, and thus everything would run through it, but maybe that wireguard method works around that? not sure, just wondering
If it was Windows, it would simply be a matter of configuring the Split-tunneling options in the mullvad app and it would work the way you want, but on to use the split tunneling feature in mullvad on linux is a bit clunky and doesn't remember your settings so it annoyingly needs you to manually whitelist each app everytime you load it up.
What I do is I run mullvad in a gluetun docker container on my nas and have the environment variable "HTTPPROXY=on" set.
Then, I connect apps on my desktop computer to gluetun by going into the network settings of whatever app I want to route through mullvad and set the proxy settings to "HTTP proxy" <nas ip>:8888. I use these proxy settings for things like FreeTube and one of the web browsers i have installed that I want to use only with a vpn.
This will work if you set the http proxy setting in qbit, but if you are going to the trouble of setting up docker, you may as well have qbit running in a docker container too.
Maybe the best option for you is to install docker (even if you don't have a server or nas, you can run it on your desktop), and run gluetun and qbit in docker containers, this will auto start on boot running headless in the background and the vpn wont interfere with the rest on you computer.
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If it was Windows, it would simply be a matter of configuring the Split-tunneling options in the mullvad app and it would work the way you want, but on to use the split tunneling feature in mullvad on linux is a bit clunky and doesn't remember your settings so it annoyingly needs you to manually whitelist each app everytime you load it up.
What I do is I run mullvad in a gluetun docker container on my nas and have the environment variable "HTTPPROXY=on" set.
Then, I connect apps on my desktop computer to gluetun by going into the network settings of whatever app I want to route through mullvad and set the proxy settings to "HTTP proxy" <nas ip>:8888. I use these proxy settings for things like FreeTube and one of the web browsers i have installed that I want to use only with a vpn.
This will work if you set the http proxy setting in qbit, but if you are going to the trouble of setting up docker, you may as well have qbit running in a docker container too.
Maybe the best option for you is to install docker (even if you don't have a server or nas, you can run it on your desktop), and run gluetun and qbit in docker containers, this will auto start on boot running headless in the background and the vpn wont interfere with the rest on you computer.
https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono seems like this is exactly what I want, actually, might help you if you're looking for a simpler solution! thanks for the advice anyway though!
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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?
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There are 2 methods:
First method is to open preferences in qbit, under Advanced > Network interface, select "wg0-mullvad" from the drop-down menu. The interface might be named something different for you, but it should stand out as pretty obvious which one to select.
Other method is in qbit > Preferences > Connection, under "Proxy Server" select "SOCKS5" from the drop-down, input 10.64.0.1 as the host and 1080 as the port.
You could even do both these options at the same time if you like, there is absolutely no downside. It's like wearing 2 condoms except it feels the same as wearing nothing at all.
It’s like wearing 2 condoms except it feels the same as wearing nothing at all.
...I mean......
