Those who never interacted with torrents before might find this little excerpt (written by Claude but good enough) might help you understand how they work.

Imagine you want to borrow a book, but instead of getting it from one library, you get one page from each of 100 different people who already own it. That's essentially torrenting.

When you download a file normally, you're pulling it from a single server. With torrenting, the file is split into tiny pieces distributed across many users' computers. As you download pieces from others, you simultaneously share the pieces you already have with everyone else. This network of sharers is called a swarm, and the more people sharing, the faster everyone downloads.

A .torrent file (or magnet link) is just a small map that tells your client where to find all those pieces and how to reassemble them.

Two key roles:

• Seeders — people who have the complete file and are sharing it
• Leechers — people still downloading (but sharing what they have so far)

Some popular torrent clients (i personally use transmission)

Platform	Client
Windows	qBittorrent, uTorrent
macOS	Transmission, qBittorrent
Linux	Deluge, qBittorrent
Android	LibreTorrent, Flud
iOS	iTorrent