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[–] 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children)

Noob here, is there a benefit to torrenting Linux distros rather than downloading them from the website?

Edit: thank you for the education!

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  • [–] 86 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Torrent is fully decentralised and therefore accessible in practically all jurisdictions, regardless of the server status.

    In many cases, I have also found Torrents to be considerably faster than direct downloads β€” however, your mileage may vary.

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  • [–] 46 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The torrent client also verifies the checksum for each chunk and automatically redownloads any corrupted chunks. With a direct download, you would have to manually verify the checksum and redownload the whole thing if it's corrupted.

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  • [–] 34 points 10 months ago

    You save the server bandwidth bills and have all the people currently downloading help you get it instead of competing with you. Also, most torrent clients are way more competent and featurefull for handling downloads than most browsers.

    Usually, it doesn't make a lot of difference.

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    i tell people* it's because torrents are faster**
    but it's really because they're cooler

    *i made that up i've never gotten that far into a conversation about distro downloads

    **in my experience it is actually a bit faster

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    If the cdn limits download speeds, it can be quite a bit faster. Like I have gigabit speeds at my library. Its faster to torrent the os and download it from my seedbox than it is to do a direct download.

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