Recommendations for torrenting with linux?

[sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world]

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.

[bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de]

qBittorrent

I think it is even heavily used on Windows.

[Guest]

Qbittorrent: you can bind the application with a network interface and ensure all the connexion will use your vpn.

bonus: you can use it as a server (without any graphical interface) and manage the torrent with your browser. This way, you can create a torrentbox on a dedicated computer.

[Guest]

Transmission

[Guest]

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.

[housewolf@lemm.ee]

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.

[rivalarrival@lemmy.today]

You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.

Huh. Well, that'll make things easier.

[Guest]

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.

[Guest]

I personally like fragments, it's quite a simple app though but it works great for me. Not sure if it works great with non-gnome setups though, since it's a gtk app

[theoriginalthon@lemmy.world]

This with remote transmission on your phone to control it

[Guest]

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.

[buwho@lemmy.ml]

qbittorrent

[scytale@lemm.ee]

Transmission. Simple, fast, efficient.

[frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml]

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

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

[lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml]

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.

[baconisaveg@lemmy.ml]

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.

[driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br]

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.

[buwho@lemmy.ml]

ive not experienced that in the almost 10 years of using it on multiple debian based distros

[kixik@lemmy.ml]

rtorrent, you just need an ssh connection if wanting to know remotely what's going on

[verdigris@lemmy.ml]

Deluge is another good client -- I'm not sure why but its defaults gave me much better download speeds than transmission or qbittorrent