cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/40037461
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
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Also torrents can be much faster & secure than direct downloads/mirrors.
That is often true indeed. Especially with famous content that is also large in size. So 10GB files that everybody want to download now! You really want to go for bittorrent. That is also the reason I was trying to convince those AI people to use bittorrent to share their large models.. But no... they keep using git (like hugging faces does). I give up on AI people.
In my experience, it really depends. Like, for the Arch Linux iso it's basically the same, but for some more niche distros, there might not be many seeds so direct download from a local mirror might be faster.