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VPN company Mullvad reminds users it will no longer use OpenVPN (mullvad.net)
submitted 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

mullvad and windscribe are the only two i support <3

[–] Sunshine@piefed.social 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have a stance on IVPN?

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I’ve had an active iVPN sub for almost 8 years now. Cannot say anything bad about them whatsoever

[–] Scavenger8294@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

why yall need a vpn?

[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

recently switched from mullvad to ivpn, and the servers are noticeably slower. with mullvad all the servers I used achieved my connections max speed 500 mb/s but on ivpn they usually do 50 - 300, and sometimes i need to switch server because they go down (i use european servers). only reason i switched was because mullvad causes a wakelock on mint cinnamon and it drives me nuts.

[–] Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Is that a Mint Cinnamon issue primarily?

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Some sort of internal error specific to them and their setup. Mullvad should function flawlessly on Mint. I've used and installed mint on multiple PCs and all sorts of drives including usbs. The repo for updating mullvad app usually needs corrected but that is it. Mint and Mullvad are solid.

[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

it hasn't happened on other distros but i have other bigger issues on them so i never could test for a longer period. took me a year to find what caused it and it hasn't happened since i switched from mullvad. fun bonus: ovpn destroyed my nvidia drivers on mint...

[–] Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I started on mint years ago and it was an okay foot in the door, but would not recommend to anyone (including beginners). Fedora is my goto for new users these days. I use arch (btw) and have had much more luck on rolling release.

Not gonna try to convince you off Mint, but it does sound like you're having issues with it.

[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

I've been itching to install ultramarine but earlier I've had bad times with fedora on my hw. also because i host jellyfin at my home network, i kinda need x11 because i have a little program that keeps my system awake when network traffic crosses a certain threshold, using xdotool. and no, that's not the cause for the wakelock issue. i know ydotool but no time to get into it in the near future