Noob here, is there a benefit to torrenting Linux distros rather than downloading them from the website?

Edit: thank you for the education!

Oh that’s really cool! I’ll have to keep that one in mind

This is cool as fuck! I wish I had gotten into Linux sooner, I might have been able to use this setup lol

One of us, one of us, one of us

For real though, find a distro that looks cool, and give it a whirl. A lot of distros have a live boot option that lets you try it out before installing. Ive tried a few myself, but I keep going back to Kubuntu. I might try bazzite soon, havent given that one a go yet!

Some of these are absolutely hilarious

I switched from windows 10 to Kubuntu a few months ago, and I’ve loved the freedom so far! Gaming has mostly been a non-issue, except for the 1 or 2 that won’t work due to anticheat nonsense. I have a debloated windows instance that I keep on a separate drive, and I’ve booted that POS maybe 2 times so far.

I got curious and tried Linux Mint and OpenSUSE, but ended back with Kubuntu because I prefer KDE Plasma and im most familiar with Ubuntu.

Be careful though, once you fall into the rabbit hole you’ll start doing things like run your own music server (like navidrome), and hosting your own photo storage server (I’ve tried both Immich and Photoprism).

Hell I switched to Linux specifically because I refused to get W11. I do have to agree with you though, the average gamer probably won’t switch to Linux unfortunately.