On 10/05/2020 18:36, Colin Finck wrote:
I haven't seen torrents widely used for open source software distribution for at least a decade.
Torrents are common from what I have seen. Offhand, I can think of Debian https://www.debian.org/distrib/, Ubuntu https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads#bittorrents and Mint https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=274 who all offer official torrents.
I've been doing quite a bit of downloading of open source operating systems recently since I've been testing various OSs and I have to say that I have commonly found official torrents to be faster overall than most mirrors.
If you have a torrent client handy (as a random example the Brave browser includes a torrent client) then torrents can be as easy to use as HTTP download links.