# Magnet link is actually a torrent link **URL:** \ **Category:** EndeavourOS repo\ **Created:** [January 29, 2026, 10:22am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826 "2026-01-29T10:22:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Viera](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/viera/32/87520_2.png) [@Viera](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Viera)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 10:22am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/1 "2026-01-29T10:22:58Z")
On [https://endeavouros.com/](https://endeavouros.com/) both the magnet and torrent links are torrent files, but from different mirrors ---
**Author:** ![keescase](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/keescase/32/114900_2.png) [@keescase](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/keescase)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/2 "2026-01-29T10:36:34Z")
Not sure what you are trying to say, but just in case you don’t know what a magnet link is. > **[What are magnet links?](https://www.techradar.com/features/what-are-magnet-links)** > > A modern approach to peer-to-peer file downloads ---
**Author:** ![xircon](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/xircon/32/9124_2.png) [@xircon](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/xircon)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/3 "2026-01-29T10:47:20Z")
Generally clicking a magnet starts to download process, @Viera is correct, it downloads it, I noticed this, but thought it too minor to bother about. ---
**Author:** ![vazicebon](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/vazicebon/32/81098_2.png) [@vazicebon](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/vazicebon)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 10:52am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/4 "2026-01-29T10:52:00Z")
OP is right, the supposed magnet link point to a .torrent file. ---
**Author:** ![UncleSpellbinder](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/unclespellbinder/32/127055_2.png) [@UncleSpellbinder](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/UncleSpellbinder)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/5 "2026-01-29T10:53:42Z")
![f](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/2/4/24c381d2b6a4c198e00dc6b78b9789241f291e01.png) Yeah, odd. Both buttons just download the torrent file to my downloads folder. ---
**Author:** ![keescase](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/keescase/32/114900_2.png) [@keescase](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/keescase)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 10:56am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/6 "2026-01-29T10:56:31Z")
Well I don’t mind because I don’t use torrents as a rule. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![SCORPION2000](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/scorpion2000/32/39398_2.png) [@SCORPION2000](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/SCORPION2000)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/7 "2026-01-29T12:40:42Z")
Why? Torrent or rather BitTorrent is great for downloading big files fast. Also Magnet link will point to a torrent without the torrent file in a more secure way: “A magnet link, also known as a magnet URI, is a method to make downloading a torrent file an easier activity. Prior to this, the files to be downloaded needed to be assigned hashes to prevent corrupt files from being traded out for the real files to be downloaded. With a magnet link, the link for the download is a simpler process. It does not require a special .torrent file, but rather is a simple text hyperlink.” ---
**Author:** ![vazicebon](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/vazicebon/32/81098_2.png) [@vazicebon](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/vazicebon)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/8 "2026-01-29T14:55:29Z")
Fast download since a lot of people are seeding and less load on the servers is a positive to me. ---
**Author:** ![keescase](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/keescase/32/114900_2.png) [@keescase](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/keescase)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/9 "2026-01-29T15:40:59Z")
Well I am not in the habit of downloading a live iso several times a hour or day, or whatever. And I can not imagine that there is a great number of people that do just that, so the load on the servers is not a real argument to me. And there have been people that have got into trouble because they downloaded some torrent from a suspicious peer in the past, don’t know how it is safety wise today though. ---
**Author:** ![SCORPION2000](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/scorpion2000/32/39398_2.png) [@SCORPION2000](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/SCORPION2000)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/10 "2026-01-29T15:58:18Z")
Maby but that’s why it’s safer with magnet link and if you are paranoid(like me 😆) use a good VPN(like Mullvad). Also it’s wise to make sure your BitTorrent program use Encryption on all. Like what qBitTorrent has. ---
**Author:** ![keescase](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/keescase/32/114900_2.png) [@keescase](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/keescase)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/11 "2026-01-29T16:00:38Z")
Well that is a lot of trouble going through for a download you only do once or twice (in my case that is). 😁 ---
**Author:** ![SCORPION2000](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/scorpion2000/32/39398_2.png) [@SCORPION2000](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/SCORPION2000)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/12 "2026-01-29T16:42:20Z")
Also this is not any “illegal” file it’s a Linux Distros ISO dl as a Torrent witch is legal to use(alot of companies use it). ---
**Author:** ![joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/joekamprad/32/77608_2.png) [@joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/joekamprad)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/13 "2026-01-29T16:47:14Z")
i will fix 😉 ---
**Author:** ![joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/joekamprad/32/77608_2.png) [@joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/joekamprad)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/14 "2026-01-29T16:57:13Z")
can someone validate its working now? my ISP does not allow any torrenting so i can not test at the moment.. ---
**Author:** ![thefrog](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/thefrog/32/114250_2.png) [@thefrog](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/thefrog)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/15 "2026-01-29T17:33:07Z")
seems to be working for me. ---
**Author:** ![UncleSpellbinder](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/unclespellbinder/32/127055_2.png) [@UncleSpellbinder](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/UncleSpellbinder)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/16 "2026-01-29T18:10:58Z")
Working properly. ---
**Author:** ![perletero](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/perletero/32/115572_2.png) [@perletero](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/perletero)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/17 "2026-01-29T18:40:35Z")
Yup, it’s working. ---
**Author:** ![Bink](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/bink/32/87216_2.png) [@Bink](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Bink)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/18 "2026-01-29T23:48:51Z")
> [@keescase](#): > > Well I am not in the habit of downloading a live iso several times a hour or day, or whatever. And I can not imagine that there is a great number of people that do just that, so the load on the servers is not a real argument to me. It’s not just a question of resource overhead. Servers cost money to host and they come with limits, that cost money to raise. For example, I could spin up a mirror on my preferred cloud hosting provider, that includes 1000GB data transfer per month. With the current EndeavourOS image sitting at about 3.2GB, that’ll provide just a little over 300 downloads a month, and that’s assuming this’ll be the _only_ thing the server is providing. Given that server would be the only mirror in the continent (currently), I’d better hope there aren’t more than 300 downloads for that period! Of course, I could spend more and increase the limit, but here in lies why torrents do in fact help reduce load on these servers. ---
**Author:** ![perletero](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/perletero/32/115572_2.png) [@perletero](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/perletero)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/19 "2026-01-30T00:32:54Z")
Yeah the data storage on a server is pretty cheap usually, but the bandwidth… ---
**Author:** ![drunkenvicar](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/drunkenvicar/32/112222_2.png) [@drunkenvicar](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/drunkenvicar)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826/20 "2026-01-30T03:14:27Z")
> [@UncleSpellbinder](#): > > Yeah, odd. Both buttons just download the torrent file to my downloads folder. always noticed, but never minded it [Next page](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/magnet-link-is-actually-a-torrent-link/77826.md?page=2)