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Does the Tribler client have the feature of acting like a "super-node"? Namely I don't want to download anything right now, but I am OK to donate (rent?) my bandwidth and storage so people can upload to my machine (and download from it) while I am out for 6 hours doing chores and errands?

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Yes, you can donate your bandwidth to others. This gives you bandwidth tokens. Tech details: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/3337

I installed the app and still have no idea what to do. I would like to start an experiment where I import several Linux distribution torrents (that I already have) and have people download from me.

I don't want to download them from scratch because I already have them.

How do I do this? Or am I misreading the idea of the app? It seems to me that it is a BitTorrent client with extra features, am I wrong?

For seeding and creating a new channel with content: https://www.tribler.org/faq.html

Bear with us, the documentation is still work in progress. If other Tribler users download from your channel, you get tokens. See https://www.tribler.org/howto.html

Thank you, those helped.

What are the tokens good for, getting priority bandwidth when you want content?

Does the purchase of Bittorrent Inc by Tron affect your organization or strategy at all?

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