I just replaced my windows 7 media server with Ubuntu. The installation was really easy.
Some annoying minor bugs.
Some missing features.
Some shortages of apps like a torrent client or acceptable packet sniffer.
But overall very happy with it and the price was right.
My main pc is win10. My last windows install
There’s torrent clients in every linux distro I have ever seen. Most come with Transmission, but it is rather simple and limited. Deluge is a more full featured torrent client (free and open source too!) that is on most distro repositories.
on debian based systems you can type: sudo apt install deluge and it will download it for you.
Linux has always been way more open to the idea of p2p file sharing, since most distros offer a torrent download for their OS.
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