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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.

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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Surfshark

Please don't use Surfshark

[–] DibbleDabble@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

What's wrong with Surfshark?