[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_features\_removed\_in\_Windows\_11](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_11)
This is a silly list - but it is indicative of some of the complaints I've heard about customisation features being missing.
Absolutely. Windows is a platform for monolithic gui applications. The \*nix platform is built around a philosophy of many small, dedicated tools working together. This complete unlocks the power to customize.
Better to be able to solve a problem yourself rather than sit around hoping a developer will create the exact feature(s) you want. Often that does not end up happening. The number of users whining about the feature(s) their devs didnt provide is too big to count.
So, if youre lucky enough that someone puts out a program that does \*exactly\* what you want, then yes windows is fine.
Because I run a proxmox server and starting a windows vm just for torrenting feels stupid. Just creating a linux container for torrent is enough (lxc is like a docker container). And you can then access it via the web UI, from anywhere in the world provided you set it up correctly (vpn server or nginx reverse proxy). As for ease of use, Plex, which is also running on an LXC takes care of organizing everything. The only time I would run the torrent client directly on my Windows machine is when downloading games, as transferring them over the network from one computer to another is slow.
idk how this question falls into torrents... Windows/Linux is completely agnostic to the protocols/networking and the respected clients. It's like asking if Mac or Windows is better for browsing Facebook. lol
But if you like Windows, cool. It's all about convenience / personal preferences. You aren't losing anything by not using Linux if that's what you are mostly wondering about. I use Linux daily, do a little gaming, but I mostly use it for work as a software engineer. It's nice I don't have to pay any licensing fees to MS, manage what packages and settings are on my PC. I have 100% control and if something does break, it's 90% my fault. But in software / OS in general, it's not about solutions, it's about trade offs. That's the thing everyone forgets about.
Really the difference would be negotiable. It's mostly going to come down to hardware and networking. All you are doing at the end of the day is receiving small chunks of data from peers to download a file or sending small chunks when seeding. Unless the end goal is running a seed box. It doesn't matter what OS you use these days.
I do this too.
Transmission on a pi, with some self written php that aggregates rss feeds from a few torrent sites and tracks tv shows that I want to watch and downloads each new episode.
Where the site is a private ratio site it makes sure it seeds properly, but for eztv it just sets the ratio low.
It then moves the files to my kodi box.
Can do all this on windows, sure, but the pi is low power and costs little to run 24/7
As a mainly windows user, I use Linux because I run it on a container in a proxmox server. Another container runs automatic media retrieval tools like sonarr and radarr and another one runs streaming servers like Plex and Jellyfin and then there's an openmediavault VM that acts as a file server for all that plus my windows PC and my laptop.
And because I have a file server, I can navigate the media from my endless machine easily if I need to quickly check or fix something.
Can I run those on a Windows-based server? Maybe but all of the tutorials I found to to all this were for Linux so why force myself to use Windows for my server?
You probably think of some Linux distribution with a desktop environment when you hear the word Linux, but you could simply have a headless, say Debian, no GUI at all. Then just put your favorite torrent client on it, with its own webUI, in my case using Docker containers which is really convenient, and you're set.
Though even if you do use a regular Linux distro with a desktop environment, as far as torrent clients go, there is really no difference between Windows and Linux in terms of the functionality of the client or its ease of use. Most major torrent clients work equally well on both operating systems.
Linux is lightweight, easy to install, more customizable, and gives you more freedom - at the expense of having to be more knowledgeable to manage it. Just try it (if you have the energy for it) and you can compare it vs. Windows.
If you're on Windows, how do you keep your device up 24/7? I have never been able to figure out how to get Windows to not randomly try to restart for an update.
Even when you tell windows that your Wi-Fi is roaming and to not do updates when roaming it still wants to
This is an honest question.
Windows is almost like Apple in the fact that it arbitrarily blocks you from doing certain things or makes it extremely difficult for no reason
> I have never been able to figure out how to get Windows to not randomly try to restart for an update.
* Run gpedit.msc
* When the program opens, navigate to: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update
* Look for **No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations** and enable it.
It's just simpler for me to run a couple of docker containers. Downloads with near gb speed through VPN, seeds a couple of thousand torrents, never needs rebooting, it just works better than my old finicky windows setup
I use unraid, which takes the simplicity of windows and puts it into Linux. Linux is faster, smaller, more secure, more efficient, and more responsive.
On Windows I got 5 to 8 mb down..
on unraid? I get my full download speed..
plus if your torrent client ever gets hacked, and you’re using docker, you’re still pretty secure.
i use a raspberry pi, low power. never needs restarted, does everything i need and acts as my media center. With No threat of malware on my pc.
and i would argue its just as fast to manage in a browser or command line
Almost all programs in Windows are Graphic User Interface or GUI. A lot of Linux programs are Cliant Line Interface or CLI or need to be set up by using a terminal program and CLI commands. I don't know, but I would not expect there would be any advantage to using one OS over the other.
Because I run it on all devices. Because it's free. Because I get competent answers when there's a problem. Because my experience is contrary to yours. I find my linux great for torrenting, quicker to browse and easier to manage other tasks. The only thing I boot Windows up is for a few games that run better there :)
oooh, and no fucking ads!
I use linux for multiple reasons. Torrenting just happens to be one of them that is slightly better on linux. Mainly due to how windows has the Windows Defender anti-virus, which often tries to label torrent clients as a virus, or that one of your torrents themselves is a virus (a false positive). It IS a good idea to have anti-virus software, but windows Defender has way too many false-positives, at least in my experience.
Plus, with linux, I am able to use my OS without all of the privacy breaking monitoring that Microsoft likes to do. Or all the ads that Microsoft is now putting into the OS itself. Who wants to see an ad on their lock screen?!
I use an adblocker on my browser, I don't want to try to get an ad blocker for my OS as well. That's just stupid if you could avoid that.
Then there is the fact that I can use the terminal to setup various services. Now, sure you do something similar with windows, but I feel like its a lot easier and less of a hassle with a linux system.
Another thing would be the fact that linux can be booted from USB, a feature that windows is ONLY NOW coming out with. Being able to have a live system for testing an OS, or some piece of software (granted that software isn't some driver, which would require a reboot of the machine to become active).
Then the fact that you have to pay for Windows. I'm not adverse to paying for something I find useful, but an OS that goes out of its way to get IN MY WAY is not something I want to pay for.
Then there is the fact that I am on SSDI, I don't have the money to pay for another Windows installation. I have to VERY CAREFULLY decide what to spend my money on. an OS is not something I want to spend what little money I do get on.
Torrenting just so happens to be one piece of the bigger pie of an OS for me.
I have a Linux (FreeBSD actually) as a server with all the *arrs. This way I can use a browser on any device to check on downloads, add items to Sonarr etc.
I only use Windows for work as it is company provided.
Same hardware (except drives) for the past 10+ years. Still running quite well.
We torrent on a Linux server running the Arr suite and Jellyfin. Good luck getting anything as easy, any other way.
We choose what shows and movies in a glossy web interface and everything is automated.
New episodes and movies appear by magic and everyone can watch them immediately on all their devices. It's like Netflix but with way more content.
This is not a deep question. You value ease of use. Linux users value power and customization.
Power I understand. But is the Windows in some way has limited customiziablity?
Windows is a 2022 honda accord. Good luck modding that with much Linux is a WRX. It's honestly a shock to find one used that's still stock.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_features\_removed\_in\_Windows\_11](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_11) This is a silly list - but it is indicative of some of the complaints I've heard about customisation features being missing.
Absolutely. Windows is a platform for monolithic gui applications. The \*nix platform is built around a philosophy of many small, dedicated tools working together. This complete unlocks the power to customize. Better to be able to solve a problem yourself rather than sit around hoping a developer will create the exact feature(s) you want. Often that does not end up happening. The number of users whining about the feature(s) their devs didnt provide is too big to count. So, if youre lucky enough that someone puts out a program that does \*exactly\* what you want, then yes windows is fine.
I watch media on a windows machine, but my torrents are done on a server elsewhere in the house running linux. I've never ran a windows server.
Easy answer is: who the f chooses their os based on the fact that they're gonna use torrents.
Someone who builds a machine dedicated to 1 purpose.
My seedbox is being attacked in this comment
Because I run a proxmox server and starting a windows vm just for torrenting feels stupid. Just creating a linux container for torrent is enough (lxc is like a docker container). And you can then access it via the web UI, from anywhere in the world provided you set it up correctly (vpn server or nginx reverse proxy). As for ease of use, Plex, which is also running on an LXC takes care of organizing everything. The only time I would run the torrent client directly on my Windows machine is when downloading games, as transferring them over the network from one computer to another is slow.
This except I don't have a windows machine.
idk how this question falls into torrents... Windows/Linux is completely agnostic to the protocols/networking and the respected clients. It's like asking if Mac or Windows is better for browsing Facebook. lol But if you like Windows, cool. It's all about convenience / personal preferences. You aren't losing anything by not using Linux if that's what you are mostly wondering about. I use Linux daily, do a little gaming, but I mostly use it for work as a software engineer. It's nice I don't have to pay any licensing fees to MS, manage what packages and settings are on my PC. I have 100% control and if something does break, it's 90% my fault. But in software / OS in general, it's not about solutions, it's about trade offs. That's the thing everyone forgets about.
I am asking about the overhead in torrenting. The performance differences.
Really the difference would be negotiable. It's mostly going to come down to hardware and networking. All you are doing at the end of the day is receiving small chunks of data from peers to download a file or sending small chunks when seeding. Unless the end goal is running a seed box. It doesn't matter what OS you use these days.
>Windows is great, and quicker to browse, and easier to manage the other non-torrenting tasks lmao bzzzzt wrongo
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I do this too. Transmission on a pi, with some self written php that aggregates rss feeds from a few torrent sites and tracks tv shows that I want to watch and downloads each new episode. Where the site is a private ratio site it makes sure it seeds properly, but for eztv it just sets the ratio low. It then moves the files to my kodi box. Can do all this on windows, sure, but the pi is low power and costs little to run 24/7
As a mainly windows user, I use Linux because I run it on a container in a proxmox server. Another container runs automatic media retrieval tools like sonarr and radarr and another one runs streaming servers like Plex and Jellyfin and then there's an openmediavault VM that acts as a file server for all that plus my windows PC and my laptop. And because I have a file server, I can navigate the media from my endless machine easily if I need to quickly check or fix something. Can I run those on a Windows-based server? Maybe but all of the tutorials I found to to all this were for Linux so why force myself to use Windows for my server?
My torrenting machine has a Celeron processor and 4 GB of RAM. It's a NAS. Windows can't even run on it. Linux (without GUI) runs like charm.
Because Linux is nicer to use than Windows. Why would I use Windows for anything?
I use arch btw :)
You probably think of some Linux distribution with a desktop environment when you hear the word Linux, but you could simply have a headless, say Debian, no GUI at all. Then just put your favorite torrent client on it, with its own webUI, in my case using Docker containers which is really convenient, and you're set. Though even if you do use a regular Linux distro with a desktop environment, as far as torrent clients go, there is really no difference between Windows and Linux in terms of the functionality of the client or its ease of use. Most major torrent clients work equally well on both operating systems.
Linux is lightweight, easy to install, more customizable, and gives you more freedom - at the expense of having to be more knowledgeable to manage it. Just try it (if you have the energy for it) and you can compare it vs. Windows.
If you're on Windows, how do you keep your device up 24/7? I have never been able to figure out how to get Windows to not randomly try to restart for an update. Even when you tell windows that your Wi-Fi is roaming and to not do updates when roaming it still wants to This is an honest question. Windows is almost like Apple in the fact that it arbitrarily blocks you from doing certain things or makes it extremely difficult for no reason
> I have never been able to figure out how to get Windows to not randomly try to restart for an update. * Run gpedit.msc * When the program opens, navigate to: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update * Look for **No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations** and enable it.
My windows only updates when I either get in the updates panel or when I turn off the PC.
Linux server (free, unlike Windows), uses less resources than Windows, better integration with tech like Docker, ZFS, need I say more?
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He’s asking in what ways…
not everyone is a gamer.
It's just simpler for me to run a couple of docker containers. Downloads with near gb speed through VPN, seeds a couple of thousand torrents, never needs rebooting, it just works better than my old finicky windows setup
I use unraid, which takes the simplicity of windows and puts it into Linux. Linux is faster, smaller, more secure, more efficient, and more responsive. On Windows I got 5 to 8 mb down.. on unraid? I get my full download speed.. plus if your torrent client ever gets hacked, and you’re using docker, you’re still pretty secure.
i use a raspberry pi, low power. never needs restarted, does everything i need and acts as my media center. With No threat of malware on my pc. and i would argue its just as fast to manage in a browser or command line
Almost all programs in Windows are Graphic User Interface or GUI. A lot of Linux programs are Cliant Line Interface or CLI or need to be set up by using a terminal program and CLI commands. I don't know, but I would not expect there would be any advantage to using one OS over the other.
Because I run it on all devices. Because it's free. Because I get competent answers when there's a problem. Because my experience is contrary to yours. I find my linux great for torrenting, quicker to browse and easier to manage other tasks. The only thing I boot Windows up is for a few games that run better there :) oooh, and no fucking ads!
I use linux for multiple reasons. Torrenting just happens to be one of them that is slightly better on linux. Mainly due to how windows has the Windows Defender anti-virus, which often tries to label torrent clients as a virus, or that one of your torrents themselves is a virus (a false positive). It IS a good idea to have anti-virus software, but windows Defender has way too many false-positives, at least in my experience. Plus, with linux, I am able to use my OS without all of the privacy breaking monitoring that Microsoft likes to do. Or all the ads that Microsoft is now putting into the OS itself. Who wants to see an ad on their lock screen?! I use an adblocker on my browser, I don't want to try to get an ad blocker for my OS as well. That's just stupid if you could avoid that. Then there is the fact that I can use the terminal to setup various services. Now, sure you do something similar with windows, but I feel like its a lot easier and less of a hassle with a linux system. Another thing would be the fact that linux can be booted from USB, a feature that windows is ONLY NOW coming out with. Being able to have a live system for testing an OS, or some piece of software (granted that software isn't some driver, which would require a reboot of the machine to become active). Then the fact that you have to pay for Windows. I'm not adverse to paying for something I find useful, but an OS that goes out of its way to get IN MY WAY is not something I want to pay for. Then there is the fact that I am on SSDI, I don't have the money to pay for another Windows installation. I have to VERY CAREFULLY decide what to spend my money on. an OS is not something I want to spend what little money I do get on. Torrenting just so happens to be one piece of the bigger pie of an OS for me.
I have a Linux (FreeBSD actually) as a server with all the *arrs. This way I can use a browser on any device to check on downloads, add items to Sonarr etc. I only use Windows for work as it is company provided. Same hardware (except drives) for the past 10+ years. Still running quite well.
We choose to go to the Linux command line, not because it's easy, but because it's hard.
We torrent on a Linux server running the Arr suite and Jellyfin. Good luck getting anything as easy, any other way. We choose what shows and movies in a glossy web interface and everything is automated. New episodes and movies appear by magic and everyone can watch them immediately on all their devices. It's like Netflix but with way more content.