Favourite FOSS Torrenting Client for Linux that has a VPN killswitch?

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I'm a long-time Transmission user but I just learned that VPN killswitches are a thing (how did it take me so long!?). I would like to try another client which has this feature in case I forget to launch my VPN client before opening Transmission. Does anybody have any recommendations? Deluge? QBittorrent? Or any others?

UPDATE: Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I decided to give qbittorrent a try and have been enjoying it so far.

I followed these steps to bind it to my VPN from on Linux:

  1. Pause torrents
  2. Connect VPN
  3. Open qBittorrent. Go to Preferences, and then Advanced tab
  4. Change network interface to tun0. If unsure, disconnect VPN and restart qBittorrent then repeat step 1 to see which interface appears.
  5. Restart qBittorrent
  6. Test it out on the official kubuntu torrent or your favourite distro from LinuxTracker.org. Turn your VPN on and off while verifying whether it pauses and resumes downloading.
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Ditch torrents and go to usenet

What's going on?

Much like in the attached image, OP has requested help with a specific thing and the responder has not provided any helpful information and has simply told OP to do something completely different with no further explanation.

Usenet is okay but there's some stuff I can only find on torrents

I have usenet as my primary with torrent as a backup. I get probably 80-90% hits on usenet for the most part.

Yeah, the stuff I can't find on Usenet is usually old and very obscure. Anime, without the right usenet subs, is particularly hard to find.