WG was always so much better anyway.
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Well it was written to replace open VPN right? So that makes sense
Don't let openvpn get a swelled head. Itself it was just a Bender project ("I'm gonna write vtun better; with hookers and beer!") anyway.
Urgh, I don't really have time to do this migration but guess I'm planning it in anyway.
Past me was a lazy bum. But I'm confident that future me is all over this. Time for a nap.
Damn you sir, you didn't need to call me out with that last paragraph.
No, I know it wasn't my shoe, but look at how well it fits!
mullvad and windscribe are the only two i support <3
Do you have a stance on IVPN?
I’ve had an active iVPN sub for almost 8 years now. Cannot say anything bad about them whatsoever
recently switched from mullvad to ivpn, and the servers are noticeably slower. with mullvad all the servers I used achieved my connections max speed 500 mb/s but on ivpn they usually do 50 - 300, and sometimes i need to switch server because they go down (i use european servers). only reason i switched was because mullvad causes a wakelock on mint cinnamon and it drives me nuts.
Is that a Mint Cinnamon issue primarily?
it hasn't happened on other distros but i have other bigger issues on them so i never could test for a longer period. took me a year to find what caused it and it hasn't happened since i switched from mullvad. fun bonus: ovpn destroyed my nvidia drivers on mint...
I started on mint years ago and it was an okay foot in the door, but would not recommend to anyone (including beginners). Fedora is my goto for new users these days. I use arch (btw) and have had much more luck on rolling release.
Not gonna try to convince you off Mint, but it does sound like you're having issues with it.
I've been itching to install ultramarine but earlier I've had bad times with fedora on my hw. also because i host jellyfin at my home network, i kinda need x11 because i have a little program that keeps my system awake when network traffic crosses a certain threshold, using xdotool. and no, that's not the cause for the wakelock issue. i know ydotool but no time to get into it in the near future
why yall need a vpn?
Privacy
And justified paranoia
Pira... I mean, Privacy
A bit annoying for all the things that don't support openvpn, like old Synology NAS devices.
You can install a wireguard spk from blackvoid - Wireguard SPK for your Synology NAS.
Oh that's interesting, though my model isn't on the list ;(
Bummer. For whatever reason I always get much better speeds on openvpn servers.
That's not something you hear very often.
That’s very strange. WireGuard was specifically created in part because of speed limitations.
Only the opposite has ever happened for me.
Oh I know it's odd. I think it must be something with my router or windows configuration, but it's very noticeably different between the two.
This post makes it look like there's something serious ly wrong with openvpn, but it's just them not wanting to deal with it and deprecating it.
Oh well, guess Ill put a note not to use them. My country blocks VPN protocols and wg specifically, so for my usecase I need as many protocols supported as possible, preferrably mimicking other innocuous protocols.
Good! That shit needs to be phased out.