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
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.
ive not experienced that in the almost 10 years of using it on multiple debian based distros
I use qbittorent through Mullvad using Gluetun as qbt is running in docker.
DHT and PEX don’t seem to work though, I did brief research and it seemed related to mullvad no longer allowing port forwarding? I don’t know enough about how it works but I tried messing with it for several hours a couple days ago to no avail, only trackers appear to work for connecting to other peers.
On a headless Ubuntu LXC running in proxmox, I just access the qbt interface via its Web portal.
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.
Just use qbittorrent
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!
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?
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.
Yeah, I just wish there was a way to automatically update the port whenever it changes. It doesn’t change often since my server tends to stay on 24/7. But when it does change, it would be nice to have it automatically update.
Back before my current server, I was just messing around with it in Windows. I discovered that qBit actually stores the forwarded port in the registry, and PIA has a terminal command that can print the currently forwarded port. I tried to write a quick .bat script to automatically run when the PIA network adapter connected. The goal was to grab the port number and update the registry for qBit any time the internet went out or my server was rebooted.
And it seemed to work fine. It launched when PIA connected, and pushed the new value to the registry. But that forwarded port was also apparently being stored somewhere else as well, because just updating the registry wasn’t enough; When qBit launched it still showed the old port number, even though all of the documentation I found said it was simply a registry value. At that point I just gave up and manually updated it every time I turned my computer on.
qBittorrent
I think it is even heavily used on Windows.
I would also look in to I2P. Their are a few clients that support it like qbittorrent.
Deluge and Surfshark VPN
Hey mods! How come you don’t remove this post because “OP didn’t ask for a VPN recommendation”?
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!
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.
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 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.
Surfshark
Please don’t use Surfshark
What’s wrong with Surfshark?
Deluge is another good client – I’m not sure why but its defaults gave me much better download speeds than transmission or qbittorrent
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.
KTorrent (KDE) or Transmission (GNOME).
GNOME is the default on Ubuntu, Fedora and lots more. KDE is default on OpenSUSE, KDE Neon and Kubuntu.
You can torrent easily on Linux using any distro and any client.
It’s very unlikely you’ll have any issues.
