Black Friday sale at a good price. Seems to work well–good selection of fast overseas VPNs. Use it at boot and in my browsers, Windows & Linux clients, yadayada. It was #2 on the list of current “Best Of” I read and was feelin’ kind of, um, “hampered” by ISP restrictions, etc.
We’ll see. As long as there’s no take-downs & violations coming from my ISP I’ll be happy.
You know, one of the major things that attracted me to Linux in the first place was when I had my first successful install of Slackware, asked the folks in forums what Malware and Virus protection I needed to add and they laughed at me. That was a taste of the freedom Linux offers.
But nowadays I also need to run Windows simply to get 1080p streaming movies/series in various places (Netflix, Prime, HBOMax, AMC+) and I like to get what I pay for, ergo I mostly had the Windows environment in mind when I purchased a 2-year subscription at a Black Friday discounted price.
But it also has excellent Linux clients in Arch as well.
You have two options with Surfshark, use their app or set it up manually. To set it up manually see this guide.
As a sidenote, you should setup your VPN connections manually if possible. Providers can add features in their apps to slow connections, or whatever. If you connecting it manually through the desktop, it sidelines a lot of these features.
With that said, there have been issues with Arch and OpenVPN connections lately, works for some people, others (like me) not so much.
This will get you all the ovpn bins for all countries. But you will need to have an account to use them.
Open terminal and go to the directory you want to put them in and copy and paste the line below.
Running Arch, ArchLabs and Garuda all with OpenVPN and ovpn bins. No issues here on any on them. Should of added as well openSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora and Debian SID.
It is free of cost and well supported on Linux. Though, it is a proxy server instead of an actual vpn.
Have a look
It's available on AUR.
I prefer it over an actual vpn, because it is faster, at least on my device.
Plus it is cloudflare product, so it can be surely trusted.
I strongly second Mullvad! I've been a fan for a long time now. Never had any issues at all on Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, or Mac. They list the providers in a chart here if you do any 'peer to peer activities', so you can cherry-pick your preference: Servers | Mullvad VPN. Their app is also fully open source () GitHub - mullvad/mullvadvpn-app: The Mullvad VPN client app for desktop and mobile and available on Chaotic-AUR.
You may also want to look carefully though this list:
Yeah, but as far as I know cloudflare guys, they will make sure to keep open a free plan, that will cost nothing, but has limited features.
A WARP+ plan will be introduced with more functionalities.
I think I got a similar deal, it was two years for like ninety bucks or something. It has been pretty good I think. The Nordlynx mode runs over WireGuard so it’s plenty fast and having so many servers up globally is nice.
Other than the Android client I’ve only ever used it in the terminal, but the commands are simple enough and everything comes up in help queries if you forget a command or syntax.
Once I spent a good thirty minutes troubleshooting my network connection–I just couldn’t get on my LAN, couldn’t connect to the internet, it was the weirdest thing…then finally I realized I had forgotten to nordvpn set killswitch off before shutting down my computer the night before.
I use PIA (Private Internet Access) on all my Linux installs and have never had a problem with it.
It is one of the cheapest and no black helicopters have landed in my front yard yet.
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