Recommendations for torrenting with linux?
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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.
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You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.
Huh. Well, that'll make things easier.
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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.
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This with remote transmission on your phone to control it
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This is what I use. Once you get it working, it's a great setup. I have it running on my mini HTPC under the hood, and it really doesn't use much in the way of resources.
It has a webui that I can use to search and add torrents, and you can choose an alternate UI for the page if you want (I used VueTorrent, it looks better on mobile).
And, like others have said, you can bind it so that if your VPN disconnects, torrents won't just keep running in the background.
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qbittorrent
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Transmission. Simple, fast, efficient.
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You can torrent easily on Linux using any distro and any client.
It's very unlikely you'll have any issues.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ive not experienced that in the almost 10 years of using it on multiple debian based distros
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rtorrent, you just need an ssh connection if wanting to know remotely what's going on
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Deluge is another good client -- I'm not sure why but its defaults gave me much better download speeds than transmission or qbittorrent
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Asus WRT Router > Proton VPN
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ProxMox EV
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Debian 12 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 way of putting my setup but I think it gets the point across.
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I would also look in to I2P. Their are a few clients that support it like qbittorrent.
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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)
