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Originally posted by birdie View PostVPN providers which support WireGuard: https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-wire...-vpns-in-2019/ I haven't tested any - since I'm extremely lazy I will wait until NetworkManager supports it natively in GUI. Right now it's all a bit tedious and requires using the console: https://blogs.gnome.org/thaller/2019...etworkmanager/
Mullwad supports WireGuard and provides an open source app for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS
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Originally posted by ALRBP View PostVPN providers often have their own apps.
Mullwad supports WireGuard and provides an open source app for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View Postdecent VPN providers usually give you plain configuration or even a file to connect without the app, as that's what you usually do for a router, or if your distro isn't Ubuntu LTS.
Custom apps are useful for beginners (and maybe all Windowsians, since, with my personal VPN, I never managed to have OpenVPN working correctly on Windows, or even MS's own PPTP client !) and can be more practical, for example with server switching. There is also the killswitch function, even through I personally prefer, on Linux, a namespace isolation (harder to set up). When this app is proprietary, it can be an issue, but it's fine with an open source app.
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Originally posted by ALRBP View PostCustom apps are useful for beginners
Also yes, basic stuff like killswitch still isn't implemented natively in NetworkManager (it's a simple firewalling trick, I have added scripts to do it, but really I shouldn't be doing that) and it's outrageous.
My router (with OpenWrt, but also GL.inet routers) can be fed a openvpn config file and configured to killswitch OpenVPN or even Wireguard with a couple clicks.
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Originally posted by ALRBP View Post
Right, Mullvad also provides config files for OpenVPN and WireGuard, plus installation guides for standard VPN clients.
Custom apps are useful for beginners (and maybe all Windowsians, since, with my personal VPN, I never managed to have OpenVPN working correctly on Windows, or even MS's own PPTP client !) and can be more practical, for example with server switching. There is also the killswitch function, even through I personally prefer, on Linux, a namespace isolation (harder to set up). When this app is proprietary, it can be an issue, but it's fine with an open source app.
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I'd say compared to ipsec, pptp and openvpn it quite an improvement, any day. Simple, unobtrusive, works. Without tons of enterprise-grade bugged crap and stupid buzzwords. And it simple enough so everyone can be their own "provider" setting that up on their server themselves, etc. Its nowhere close to horrors of setting up ipsec or even getting openvpn anyhow secure.
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