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[–] ElectroLisa@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Still waiting for ProtonVPN support for Linux distributions other than Ubuntu/"Gnome Debian".

The Flatpak and Arch (I know, unofficial versions) packages appear to be broken for quite some time, and Proton devs have closed a bug report for it as it's not a "supported platform".

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What's broken about them? I just installed the package from the AUR a couple of days ago and it seems to be working fine for me.

[–] ElectroLisa@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not sure if it was an issue with the flatpak version or AUR but it would have only one successful launch. Once you'd restart the app or PC, it would not launch at all, or it would launch, show server list but throw errors when trying to connect to a VPN server.

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

So I just tried to replicate this issues two ways:

  1. I disconnected from the VPN, shut down the app, then restarted it and reconnected. I was able to establish a connection and checking my IP and for DNS leaks both showed I had a solid connection.
  2. I rebooted the PC and when I was back on the desktop, I started up the app and it connected almost immediately after hitting the quick connect button. I tested again and it passed.

Maybe they've since corrected the issues you were seeing?

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