At the time I tried (2009), I was too young and afraid of messing up my Windows (I didn’t even know if I was able to remove Windows and not loose the warranty), so I was finally did thanks to the marvelous Wubi installer. It let you try Ubuntu without messing around with partitions. Thanks to that, I was able to start learning Linux until I gained confidence and did a proper dual boot.

Now I only use Arch, even for work.

Amen

Ubuntu Satanic Edition’s favourite kernel.

In what kind of world is a missing feature or a broken feautre due to incomplete migration to a new ecosystem, a reason to boycott that new ecosystem?? Those are simply not valid arguments to me.

They are obviously valid arguments to say, hey, this work is not completed, is not mature enough etc. So, therefore, you stay with previous ecosystem. But to boycott it because of that? That does not make sense to me at all.

Port forwarding does matter to increase ypur availability. It is not a requirement to be able to seed and you can also seed at pretty decent rates without port forwarding, though. I am doint it with mullvad without PF and it’s fine.

In my opinion, there are no other VPNs with a similar quality of mullvad that support PF at the price of mullvad.

We really need to push for the use of i2p for torrenting. Given that the the offer of VPNs with port forwarding that are decent is little and decreasing every year.

I’ve been able to found them in 1337x and TorrentGalaxy

I think I’m answering myself as I just read i2p is closed from clearnet. So I suppose the private tracker would need to be connected to i2p.

Is a torrent client behind i2p as reachable as if I had a VPN with port forwarding?

EDIT: is the use of i2p compatible with private trackers? So that they can keep track of what I’m seeding?