Official support for any distro is not that important, imo. If they actually deliver a native GeForce NOW app for SteamOS, it’ll likely work on other distros too (unless Nvidia actively blocks them/only supports Steam Deck controls specifically).

Hopefully they’ll release the app on Steam directly, or better yet, to flathub. If they only release a script to install it specifically on the Steam Deck, like the beta script they currently have, I’ll be disappointed.

Because YouTube pays Louis Rossmann, compared to selfhosting video which costs tremendous amounts of money through bandwidth.

There’re a few open german torrent trackers. [1]

Immortuos is application only, but they have an english language interface, so if your on other private trackers already, I recommend applying.

[1] https://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?35824-Liste-aktueller-deutscher-Torrent-Tracker-V2

Semi-private just refers to how easy it is to join them. E.g. rutracker is considered a semi-private tracker, because it requires an account, but always allows registrations and does not enforce any ratio.

In that sense I was wrong in calling TL a semi-private tracker, because TL does require maintaining a ratio. But given it is possible to simply join via their seedbox offerings, it is not as private as some other trackers, which require proofs of good behaviour on other trackers and/or an application process.

Edit: Public: no registration required
Semi-private: registration required, but always possible; lax ratio rules
Private: registration required, mostly through invites/applications; anti-leech ratio rules

There’s a continuously updated list of german private trackers [1].

AnimeWorld is the best german anime tracker and is currently open until the end of the year.

Immortuos is the best tracker with continously open applications, but they require solid proof of known good trackers.

TFA does not require as much proof and requests get filled quickly.

BTF, WoT are impossible to get into. TS has really strict requirements, but they do take applications.

Also, there’s no invite route like on many english “cabal” trackers.

Otherwise, usenet has more german content than TFA (and other lower tier trackers). The usenet board FileLeechers will be open from 2024-12-31 16:00 to 2025-01-01 02:00. For automation (arr*) SceneNZBs is the german usenet indexer.

PS: Remember to bind your torrent client to the VPN interface, if you want to use one.

[1] https://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?35824-Liste-aktueller-deutscher-Torrent-Tracker-V2

Semi-private trackers like TorrentLeech are a great step up from public trackers and they are relatively easy to join (e.g. seedbox promo). More content is available and well-seeded for longer periods of time.

It’s not difficult to keep your ratio, even with a 50MBit/s connection (torrents > 15GB are freeleech anyway), as long as you seed 24/7. Or buy a seedbox for a while, build a few TB of buffer (autobrr) and never worry again.

Edit: Usenet is great because it’s fast, and depending on your (non-english) language, it’s a completely different league than public trackers. But I’d argue for english content TL (and a few others) is good enough.

With I2P each user is a node/router, so it does not rely on central nodes like Tor.

The only issue is it’s slow, because most users don’t allocate/have much bandwidth. Because of it’s garlic routing (similar to Tor’s onion routing) traffic is encrypted multiple times with multiple hops which also impacts throughput and latency.

The good thing is it’s already suppported by qBittorrent (and BiglyBT), but setting it up is a manual process.

Also, qBittorrent doesn’t support DHT over I2P yet, so it’s necessary to use an i2p tracker like tracker2.postman.i2p.

But that would be pretty easy to squash, wouldn’t it? I mean a network only set up for piracy, it will get it’s main operators taken down pretty fast.

As long as there’s reasonable doubt that i2p is only used for piracy, it shouldn’t get blocked. Similarly, Tor isn’t only used for trading drugs, so it mustn’t get blocked by democracies.

YouTube changed something about their API to break 3rd party apps again. youtube-dl is also broken, but they’ve found the issue already, so it’ll likely be fixed after a while.

GrayJay and YouTube ReVanced still work in meantime.

[1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11255