I have Surfshark and followed the instructions to make create a VPN on the Network Interface part of the Control Panel. However, the rest of the tutorials I’ve seen add an OpenVPN profile and use the VPN Server application instead.
Is there a meaningful difference between the two?
Which “rest of the tutorials”?
A vpn client and a vpn server, are meant for completely different things.
A vpn client using a vpn servuce provider is to hide your ass on the internet (or better shifting trust to your vpn provider instead of your internet provider). While running your own vpn server is meant to connect to your home network from the outside in a secure way.