You can torrent easily on Linux using any distro and any client.
It's very unlikely you'll have any issues.
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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.
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qBittorrent! You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.
Was using Deluge before on Windows and for a while when I switched to Linux but started having issues with it.
You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.
Huh. Well, that'll make things easier.
Deluge is another good client -- I'm not sure why but its defaults gave me much better download speeds than transmission or qbittorrent
rtorrent, you just need an ssh connection if wanting to know remotely what's going on
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.
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I personally like "fragments", it's quite a simple app though but it works great for me. Not sure if it works great with non-gnome setups though, since it's a gtk app
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.