supervent

Yes. It is better to use i2p for bittorrent. Now qbittorrent it is compatible.

I know you are asking for a VPN, but you could give a try i2p for bittorrent it is free and secure. And if you want just DDL, you have Tor.

Debian 12 with your favorite DE, I use XFCE

For bittorrent and p2p it is better to use i2p, tor only to surf the internet.

Me too, I have running a tor snowflake and i2pd instance on the same server I am seeding.

you could try to use i2pd or i2p for bittorrent with BiblgyBT or qbittorrent 4.6RC and above, there is a few decent public trackers on i2p.

look on ed2k/kad network through emule/amule/mldonkey

Nope, torrent and ed2k/kad networks are

This is the MINIMUM: OS: Ubuntu 20.04 Processor: 4 hardware CPU threads - Intel® Core™ i5 750 or higher Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: AMD GCN+ or NVIDIA Kepler+ with up-to-date Vulkan drivers. Support for VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library highly recommended. Storage: 85 GB available space Sound Card: Highly recommended

You should try with your CPU and GPU

I know you are asking for cs 1.6, but do you know counter strike 2 is free on steam and have compatibility with Linux?