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Ngl, I'm very surprised and very pleased proton has lasted. They seem to be on track to remaining sustainable and true to their stated goals.
I haven't run their paid tier VPN yet, because of the linux issues, but the free tier always worked well when I was between providers and deciding who to go with.
What Linux issues are those?
No wireguard. Unable to launch on login for some DE.
Wireguard is up. Cannot speak to the other instances.
Also slow ass GUI, no auto-connect on startup. I wrote a script for this. Luckily the offer a CLI
the proton VPN client on linux is unfortunately absolute garbage and lacks a ton of features and takes forever to connect
I don't use the Client, but the OpenVPN scripts. No problem so far.
You already got the answers I was going to give lol.
I just picked and set up 4 or 5 different Proton VPN profiles in my network manager so I can jump onto one with a couple of clicks. It's overall been great. Occasionally one I connect to is overloaded and I have to jump to another one. I don't stay connected to VPN, just when I want/need it.
In a recent e-mail they mentioned an open Linux dev position, so hopefully the Linux client will catch up soon enough!