Does anybody download iso’s via torrents? Or how to help the actual sites that serve these? Since I trust the source more than torrents… Especially for an image…
I prefer to download isos via torrents. You can easily check the checksum and signature once it’s downloaded. And you’re getting the torrent/magnet link/etc from the source so it’s not some random torrent from piratebay or something lmao
Ahh makes sense. I still direct download but I guess if I had Torrent client locally it might be nice. But 3-4GiB on direct download doesn’t take long…
It doesn’t, but thousands of people all downloading 3-4GB from the same site will put more load on the site. Torrents avoid this issue by downloading little bits from lots of different peers
Does anybody download iso’s via torrents? Or how to help the actual sites that serve these? Since I trust the source more than torrents… Especially for an image…
Verifiying the checksum of an iso takes 30 seconds… You don’t need to trust anyone
Been on Linux 6 years, never done it. Extra steps
Length of time never means quality of decisions. Always best to validate. So easy to package up malware and farm folks bank accounts.
Hence my threat model hasn’t included torrents.
I prefer to download isos via torrents. You can easily check the checksum and signature once it’s downloaded. And you’re getting the torrent/magnet link/etc from the source so it’s not some random torrent from piratebay or something lmao
Why not direct download from website?
Avoid detracting from the hosts bandwidth quota.
Can be faster than downloading from a centralised server that everyone is trying to download from. But mostly just habit.
I think it saves them costs but idk shit about servers
You grab the .torrent file from the source website (Mint, in this case) and it’s safe
Ahh makes sense. I still direct download but I guess if I had Torrent client locally it might be nice. But 3-4GiB on direct download doesn’t take long…
It’s more of a way to reduce costs for the CDN, using torrents everyone contributes and they only have to send a small magnet file.
It doesn’t, but thousands of people all downloading 3-4GB from the same site will put more load on the site. Torrents avoid this issue by downloading little bits from lots of different peers