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.
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.
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.
Yes, this is what I do, with Private Internet Access (VPN). You can bind qbittorrent to PIA’s interface, and also to its forwarding port.
qbittorrent.
This; Linuxserver Qbittorrent docker with gluetun to make sure all traffic goes through your VPN.
I don’t use docker, so I just set the interface to the tun0 or whatever in the qbittorrent config.
qBittorrent
I think it is even heavily used on Windows.
Transmission
This with remote transmission on your phone to control it
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?
SE Asia
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.
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Just use qbittorrent
You can torrent easily on Linux using any distro and any client.
It’s very unlikely you’ll have any issues.
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.
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.
You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.
Huh. Well, that’ll make things easier.
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
It works ? I mean what necessary functionality is it missing ? Magnet link goes in, files come out, happy face.
KTorrent (KDE) or Transmission (GNOME).
GNOME is the default on Ubuntu, Fedora and lots more. KDE is default on OpenSUSE, KDE Neon and Kubuntu.
rtorrent for me.
I would also look in to I2P. Their are a few clients that support it like qbittorrent.
