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Who torrents linux isos? Linux OSes aren't illegal to pirate.
Torrents aren't a piracy technology. A lot of Linux distros, especially non corp backed, are distributed via torrents since its more efficient.
I gather that's a meme that's older than you are?
By linux ISOs I meant any content you're torrenting: movies, software, audio, my little pony porn, whatever.
Reading the comment above yours made my hip and knee hurt.
Not your point, but I actually do recommend torrenting linux ISOs... often much faster than direct downloads from the devs' websites. ;-)
And it saves them on bandwidth costs!
I know some sites (at least used to) ask you to please torrent if possible.
Torrents are more reliable too. Every block gets its checksum verified automatically. If there is any corruption, the block will be downloaded again. With a direct download, you have to verify the checksum yourself and if it's corrupted, you have to download the entire ISO again.
I always seed the big ones, but sadly, rolling release distros outside of Arch and smaller distros have abandoned torrents because they change snapshots too frequently and/or don't have the user mass to support it.
I mean... the write speed of my flash drive (or the port it's plugged into) is usually my bottleneck
Less that the meme is older than them, probably more so they don't realize why we torrent Linux iso's.
I can pull down an ISO in seconds over torrent, whole it takes minutes over https. Also it's nice to add some of the good stuff to the traffic, if only to pad all the illegal traffic with some legitimate stuff.
Torrents are always better because they don't cost the open source projects anything to host. Direct downloads are expensive relatively speaking for server bandwidth/cdn costs, while torrents can be distributed by the community.
Excellent point! Yet another reason why Linux isos should always be torrented!
Everyone should pirate my little pony porn. Wait, there's Rule-34, I digress.
Also, please stop carting around old and unfunny memes. Learn to know when memes stop being funny.
I looked at your post history and you're overwhelming negative on a very small platform that tends to be people interacting with their best interests at heart. Maybe you grew up on 4chan, maybe you're used to reddit griefing, either Lemmy doesn't seem like a good place for you.
NeoToasty being in charge of memes. What does that mean to shitposters and going forward?