Today, we’re excited to announce that the new Proton VPN Linux app is now officially available for everyone.
With the new Linux application, you get a host of features:
Protocols: OpenVPN-UDP and OpenVPN-TCP
VPN Accelerator
Moderate NAT
NetShield Ad-blocker
Kill switch
Port forwarding
Auto connect at app startup
Pin servers to tray
Secure Core support will be added in the coming months as well. And though WireGuard is not yet supported, we’ve implemented OpenVPN DCO on our servers, which gives you identical results in terms of performance.
Find more information on how to install it in our KB article here.
For those of you wondering, in the coming months, we’ll be working on a new Linux CLI based on your feedback.
Does anyone know if this is more stable than the beta? Im on PopOS and had to switch off of using the app since it wouldn’t work after a restart and hosed my connection. Don’t want to go through fixing that mess again just to try the released version.
Tried it in debian today. Yeah, its bad that the app need to be open inorder to have connection. They could’ve made it go background ( like telegram or discord does ), which would be better.
I think not. From the reddit discussion, it seems that only 2 dev’s ( they are hiring one more soon ) work for linux support, and they can’t currently spread too thin.
I think not. There only seems to be only 2 dev’s working on linux app, and thir current priority is to bring wireguard to the app and preferrably , an updated CLI too.
I’m still a windows user but planning to pick up some linux soon. Does support for base distros mean those built upon them are supported too? Example MintOS?
If you have the required package management software installed (apt for Debian/Ubuntu-based distros, for example) it works for any distro based on that software as far as I’ve tried. The Ubuntu version should work on Mint. That said, I haven’t tried it too many times that way, so that’s no absolute guarantee. It would be great to get a flatpak version so that it could be easily installed on most distros.
Short answer based on my recent foray into Linux: depends on the fork! Some keep more parallel, some break off into their own world and are unrecognizable next to their base distro.
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Great! I’ve been waiting for quite a while for the new Linux app, I’m glad it’s finally here.
Aaaand you have to leave the app open for the connection to stay active. Ugh.
Does anyone know if this is more stable than the beta? Im on PopOS and had to switch off of using the app since it wouldn’t work after a restart and hosed my connection. Don’t want to go through fixing that mess again just to try the released version.
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Mine updated to the new version a couple days ago and there doesn’t seem to be a way to close the window without canceling the VPN connection anymore?
Tried it in debian today. Yeah, its bad that the app need to be open inorder to have connection. They could’ve made it go background ( like telegram or discord does ), which would be better.
This is how the old version worked too. Honestly just seems bizarre to release a VPN app without this feature.
Does it support the immutable fedora distros?
I think not. From the reddit discussion, it seems that only 2 dev’s ( they are hiring one more soon ) work for linux support, and they can’t currently spread too thin.
Very very cool!!!
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Does it support lan access and custom dns?
I think not. There only seems to be only 2 dev’s working on linux app, and thir current priority is to bring wireguard to the app and preferrably , an updated CLI too.
I just canceled because it didn’t support my distro. Guess I’m signing back up
Currently supported distros ( with installation guides ) :
Sadly, its still not available for arch.
Where does OpenSuse fall into this list? 😅
Fedora and Opensuse both use RPM files for software so as long as you can get those, it shouldn’t cause a problem.
I’m still a windows user but planning to pick up some linux soon. Does support for base distros mean those built upon them are supported too? Example MintOS?
for the mint-curious
mint curates their own app manager/‘store’… it caused quite the curfluffel, but i enjoy it because the crap in there is ‘sanctioned’ to work in mint…
i believe protonvpn has had a thing in there a year or more
Thanks, good to know. I guess their approach is more friendly to beginners who don’t know too much about troubleshooting yet.
I can’t try it buy 99% sure it will.
If you have the required package management software installed (apt for Debian/Ubuntu-based distros, for example) it works for any distro based on that software as far as I’ve tried. The Ubuntu version should work on Mint. That said, I haven’t tried it too many times that way, so that’s no absolute guarantee. It would be great to get a flatpak version so that it could be easily installed on most distros.
Short answer based on my recent foray into Linux: depends on the fork! Some keep more parallel, some break off into their own world and are unrecognizable next to their base distro.
Can’t wait for the arch release