[ From reddit announcement ]
Today, we’re excited to announce that the new Proton VPN Linux app is now officially available for everyone.
With the new Linux application, you get a host of features:
- Protocols: OpenVPN-UDP and OpenVPN-TCP
- VPN Accelerator
- Moderate NAT
- NetShield Ad-blocker
- Kill switch
- Port forwarding
- Auto connect at app startup
- Pin servers to tray
Secure Core support will be added in the coming months as well. And though WireGuard is not yet supported, we’ve implemented OpenVPN DCO on our servers, which gives you identical results in terms of performance.
Find more information on how to install it in our KB article here.
For those of you wondering, in the coming months, we’ll be working on a new Linux CLI based on your feedback.
I’m still a windows user but planning to pick up some linux soon. Does support for base distros mean those built upon them are supported too? Example MintOS?
Short answer based on my recent foray into Linux: depends on the fork! Some keep more parallel, some break off into their own world and are unrecognizable next to their base distro.
If you have the required package management software installed (apt for Debian/Ubuntu-based distros, for example) it works for any distro based on that software as far as I’ve tried. The Ubuntu version should work on Mint. That said, I haven’t tried it too many times that way, so that’s no absolute guarantee. It would be great to get a flatpak version so that it could be easily installed on most distros.
I can’t try it buy 99% sure it will.
for the mint-curious
mint curates their own app manager/‘store’… it caused quite the curfluffel, but i enjoy it because the crap in there is ‘sanctioned’ to work in mint…
i believe protonvpn has had a thing in there a year or more
Thanks, good to know. I guess their approach is more friendly to beginners who don’t know too much about troubleshooting yet.