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BitTorrent is No Longer the ‘King’ of Upstream Internet Traffic (torrentfreak.com)
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[–] neonred@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

apt-get install qbittorrent why would I visit their site for any reason?

And just to add - why is torrenting associated with shady stuff? Linux isos are available and download much faster over it, same for some monolithic applications like LibreOffice and other regular stuff.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Doesn’t matter, Linux users a tiny minority of end users and those using Debian’s package manager are a minority of even that. You’re less than a rounding error.