Are y’all actually torrenting Linux ISOs. Cus I recommend. Its way faster and fun to have a collection of like 30 distros and try and new branch of the larger Linux tree. I just assume its a joke but I only started torrenting Linux ISO because of seeing it replied so much lol.

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    8 months ago

    I always torrent large FOSS projects where possible. It’s faster and doesn’t tax the servers of the project.

    That’s not piracy, though, so I’m not sure why it’s being talked about here…

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        8 months ago

        The launcher for War Thunder was a p2p client for sharing game files. It worked really well and was essentially it’s own CDN. Not sure if it still is.

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          8 months ago

          Steam can do that now but first gotta enable it for friends. Works great for multiple computers on a slower internet connection. One downloads it then shares to the rest.

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              8 months ago

              Well yes but that’s the whole point. If there’s no one local it’ll be downloading from a CDN regardless.

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      8 months ago

      People sometimes say “torrenting Linux ISOs” to mean pirating without outright saying it.