I had a protonvpn app on Linux that I installed 2 years ago, it was a real bitch to set up. Now it stopped working just freezes. What do I have to do? I may have uninstalled it and I have no idea how I set it up first time around. It was a lot of work in terminal.
Works like a charm on Fedora. Depending on your distro, just follow the instructions and you’re good to go. Or just use the OpenVPN or Wireguard profiles and use your NetworkManager.
It works but you can feel they didn’t put as much effort into it compare to other os like windows. The gui is basic and the cli interface is deprecated.
App works okay but limit GUI. I use the browser extension instead. But I mostly use my Linux machine for web browsing.
Which distro?
I’m also pretty new to Linux but have not had any trouble getting the VPN app up and running on both Ubuntu and Pop!_OS.
The experience has been less than stellar in my experience. The GUI can be quite glitchy at times, especially if you’re not on GNOME. But recently, it’s just been cutting off my internet connection. As in if I connect to any server, I can’t access anything anymore. It’s like I lost all internet access. I don’t know why this is happening.
The CLI sucks (supposedly deprecated) and the GUI doesn’t have split tunneling options, at least on Debian Mint.
Was gonna mess around and migrate my Plex setup to Debian Mint and this was the second thing I tried to set up. Glad I didn’t get rid of the windows partition yet, went right on back to it.
I mean, it works but every time i look at the Windows & Android editions, i feel like i am being robbed on Linux for using it.
While they claim to be working consistently to improve it, and there are some updates here and there, the experience is much more inferior on Linux.
A lot better than it was, even in recent times. I gave Proton a hard time about the Linux port before, at times, but it has really seen a lot of great work in the recent months.
Start here: https://protonvpn.com/support/download-and-installation/linux
Find your distribution and go that page for install instructions.
On Fedora, I switched the protocol to WireGuard because OpenVPN is not installed by default. Install was easy and it works fine.
Works fine on opensuse tw
Works fine for Debian. Need to install third party VPN though first. Without which Proton servers are just not accessible for my location. They are missing complete installation package ready to be installed offline.
Its been working great for me on Bazzite. I did install it from Flathub which is not officially maintained by the proton team so take that as you will. My only compliant is that port forwarding requires using the terminal which is not complicated at all its one command you paste, but they have it on the road map to make it apart of the GUI.
it got better in ubuntu from Q3 2024
It works on Debian 12, as long as you’re not using dwm as a window manager. Still trying to figure that one out, but it’s good as a GUI on Gnome, XFCE, LXQT, MATE and i3 on my machines.
No scripting fuss involved, even though I really wish there was a CLI available to play with…
They give up on supporting Arch.
I use mint and I couldn’t get it to work properly, I moved to Mullvad
How can I download proton vpn on my lg webos tv? I can’t download it through the app store as my country doesn’t provide this app
I found it did work fine on Fedora up until about a week ago. Whatever the latest updates are, something has caused problems. It no longer has a system tray icon, you can’t hide it at startup, or at all, so that it doesn’t appear in the dock, and quite a few times on wake from sleep it says it’s disconnecting and has crashed.
Not sure if it’s kernel, Fedora, Gnome, or Proton, but something’s got annoying. But it does essentially work still.
EndeavourOS which is some kind of babies first Arch.