Just linux distros of course 
I forgot about that use case! Yes, for torrenting a VPN really is the right tool and not Tor.
Yeah that one was hilarious! Really make me think there was a troll within amazon that pulled that of.
So regarding VPN + Tor, i wrote something about that, here is my argumentation on why it is usually a bad idea an not really helping anything.
Regarding that trust thing: The cool thing with Tor is, that you do not have to trust (much)! There is no one entity that can betray you. Trust is distributed between your three nodes, so they have to work together to attack your anonymity. With a VPN you have to trust, that it is protecting you.
Your threat model seems like “i don’t want to be surveilled or analyzed”. Failure of OPSEC is not catastrophic. This can be achieved with a VPN to a reasonable degree of security (Tor is better of course ;)) and with qubes you have the very important other tool to make it happen: DisposableVMs.
Most tracking stuffs happens with cookies and fingerprinting. Hiding your IP is the easy part. Tor browser is especially build to withstand that, but by using disposables with a VPN you can get very far. How good that is against fingerprinting i don’t know however.