https://mullvad.net/en/help/install-mullvad-app-linux

Trying to install VPN and these are the instructions Mullvad is giving me. This is ridiculous. There must be a more simple way. I know how to follow the instructions but I have no idea what I’m doing here. Can’t I just download a file and install it? I’m on Ubuntu.

  • eah@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    It seems Mullvad has the OpenVPN option tucked away as the very last option even though OpenVPN seems to be the easiest method. Why is that?

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      10 months ago

      Because OpenVPN lacks the most important feature of them all - it will not remind you to top up your account balance.

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      10 months ago

      Because they want to lock you into their app and make you think VPNs are complicated so you actually pay for the service.

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        10 months ago

        I went with OpenVPN because it’s installed on Ubuntu by default. Wireguard needs one extra apt-get command.

        I don’t think that Wireguard is more secure, its’s simpler and thus easier to audit, but OpenVPN was audited to the gills already.