100% agree with all of this.

Only thing to add is occasionally you can find coupons/deals on providers and indexers. Lots around November for black friday and a handful of indexers have lifetime plans.

It’s not that hard but they will have to make accounts and set the correct exit node or use the weird magic dns. Takes some hand-holding and depends on how you set things up.

That complicates things. I would check whether subtitles are enabled (burn-in is notoriously slow) and then try manually adding your server via the app (to rule out wan/relay). Could also recreate the issue and check the server logs - timestamps should tell you what actions were taken when.

Difficult to say without more detail but it’s likely transcoding. You can view how much is cached via tautulli if that’s something you have set up.

I was never a huge fan of those binhex containers assuming that’s what you’re using. Updates become a chore for maintainers when containers try to do too much and they also become responsible for making sure everything works together. Also, just me, but I don’t like the idea of funneling other traffic that needs a vpn through a container that is tightly coupled to my torrent client.

Recommend trying a standalone transmission container and using a gluetun container’s network. https://docker-compose.de/en/gluetun/

There are other options such as qbittorrent or deluge though I would not recommend deluge due to IP leaks and it hasn’t been updated since 2022

Yes. It stopped being good around 2010-2012 depending on who you ask. Unfortunately there are still plenty of old blog posts praising it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ΜTorrent

Yep sounds like OP’s dual boot issues are due to installing windows last. It only overwrites boot each startup if it doesn’t have its own boot partition.

Also try btrfs on your linux partition for better interop. Somehow, windows btrfs drivers are much more mature than windows ext4 or linux ntfs drivers.

There is also nonsteamlaunchers but I haven’t tried it on desktop. Full disclosure, even on steam deck I swapped back to lutris because updating was clunky. Still, might be an option for you.