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[–] 74 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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  • Haven't looked at my ratios in a while

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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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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    I can't compete with the multi-TB seeders (blame my ISP's absolutely trash asymmetric upload rate), but I can still help!

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    None of these are my daily driver, FWIW I use Pop!

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Based transmission enjoyer (unless it's the qt version /j).

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    I think I'm still seeding a Lubuntu from a couple of months ago, I don't remember deleting it. I'll check later.

    Edit: I just checked, it's been there for a little less than a month, I really thought it was longer, it has a ratio of 5.32 not bad for something that many seeds.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    This is from a year or so.

    Keep seeding my friends.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Yes... I also forget

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

    why rufus, when there's ventoy?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Ventoy has some unexplained closed sourced blob in its repo afaik

    https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795

    https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/3224

    I am not sure if it got resolved. I haven't stayed up to date. I switched to Rufus.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    Additionally it can screw up sometimes. There are known issues with it with OpenSuse, causing either defective repo settings (the detection of the physical media gets mangled) or even unbootable systems. I think this can also happen on some other distros, given Ventoy's uncommon bootchain.

    Given the unexplained blobs as well at least OpenSuse recommends not to use Ventoy.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    I wish I could help with the server costs this way but if my ISP detects any torrent at all, even legal; they start emailing me literal threats.

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