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.

  • @Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de
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    484 months ago

    I once mentioned “the joys of torrenting” to a friend and they immediately assumed piracy. I mean he wasn’t wrong, but the lack of love for more standard use of P2P is saddening.

    • @TunaLobster@lemmy.world
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      114 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.

      • @Morefan@retrolemmy.com
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        104 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.

        • kib48
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          44 months ago

          doesn’t that only work on local connections?

          • @Morefan@retrolemmy.com
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            44 months ago

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