I’d prefer to get a VPN to avoid the risk of my internet getting shut down, but I’m not aware of what the options for Linux are. I figured this would be a good place to ask.
Mullvad is good and has a decent price
Mullvad has an open source client. It can also be set up usung OpenVPN too.
Bear in mind they don’t have Port Forwarding anymore.
They also have Shadowsocks proxies and SSH tunneling to help circumvent some blocking.
I really like airvpn.
Proton and mullvad are the two best options I know of.
Pretty much any VPN provider is usable on Linux though, network manager can handle wireguard or openvpn configs just fine. Your biggest concern should be trustworthiness.
They are great for privacy, but for piracy, you need something that will do port forwarding. Neither proton or mullvad will do that. I have had both of those vpns.
Proton supports port forwarding, although setup on Linux is weird.
You also don’t need port forwarding for bittorrent. It is helpful, but I haven’t used it myself for years.
I’ll vouch for airvpn. I’ve been using it for probably six years now with no issues. When using wireguard I can download Linux isos at 500mbps.
Not sure if limited by your connection but on PIA I’m pulling about 980 megabit/s
My internet is 500/500.
I just use Mullvad with wireguard, not very hard to setup.
Pick one that has a wireguard config generator, so you don’t need to use any client software besides the normal linux wg client.
I’d also look for one that accepts anonymous payment methods. Even if you don’t intend to go to the trouble to use that yourself, it’s probably a good sign if it’s available. Mullvad is pretty safe and served me well until they stopped doing port forwarding. Proton, windscribe, azire, and airvpn were the ones that seemed most recommended when I went to look for a new one a few months ago.
I’m on Proton. It’s easy to set up on Ubuntu and Ubuntu like systems. I’m on Mint. Haven’t tried it on other distros.
It’s easy to set up on Arch as well if you use wiregaurd.
I’m a Proton slave, all my eggs are in their basket so I’ll go ahead and provide some free marketing for them. ProtonVPN is pretty good since it’s ran by a good company that cares about you, getting Port Forwarding setup on Linux is a bit of a chore but I believe they’re working on automating it, the Windows app does have it automated already by the way.
I do worry about the long-term practicality of ProtonVPN because of this manual process, since as far as I can tell there’s no way to automatically hand your assigned port to the torrent client…
Any idea on when they’ll get port forwarding automated on Linux? Do you follow a blog of theirs or something?
I’m not sure if their app does it. But the gluten docker container supports their port forwarding. Works really well if you’re looking to route other containers through a VPN.
PIA for cheap service
I can also vouch for PIA’s cost vs. performance, but their prices have risen recently (still cheaper than most), and I also learned the other day that they’re now owned by Kape Technologies, a company that used to do bloat/malware development to do shady data mining.
I’m actually considering switching to AirVPN or Mozilla VPN/Mullvad, despite being a longtime customer, just for the peace of mind. Also, if you buy the three year plan of AirVPN, it’s cheaper than PIA.
And, PIA still doesn’t offer a standalone WireGuard configuration file, despite promising it was in the works a few years ago, and that’s been a stick in my craw when trying to set it up the way I want on Bazzite Linux.
Im using mullvad and happy with it on Ubuntu LTS
If you wanna torrent make sure it supports port forwarding.
OS doesn’t matter. And windows with crapware removed runs just as well. (OMG, there is so much crapware on the barebones install)
I use Proton VPN to bypass censorship. Use Remote Torrenting for torrent.
As you may read elsewhere, Mullvad and ProtonVPN are the go-to for many people. But what Linux distro are you running? both of them don’t have an OFFICIAL client for Arch, you can install them from the AUR though but I read the from proton rep in reddit that they don’t recommend these packages as they’re handled by the community.
