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Hey, is there now any recommended VPN to use?
NordVpn start doing problmes since last update, and it becomes ridiculous - since it is for sure not maintenance free anymore.

What is good recommended standard for both linux and android? Suggestions? Mullvad?
Thank you

this is fehlix's workaround
viewtopic.php?p=661743#p661743

ExpressVPN has worked for me.

ProtonVPN is pretty good

You haven't specified whether it needs to be free or not?

I use Speedify as a VPN and also a way to bridge my crappy rural wired and wireless connections together which it does seamlessly, it is not free and it requires systemd but it works perfectly for me across Windows, Linux and Android systems.

To be fair, NordVPN's openvpn technology works flawless, it is nordlynx that's almost useless under linux due to recurring connection freezes. My workaround used to be hourly reconnects. As reconnecting takes 4-5 seconds this workaround is useless when you're listening to online radio stream. So now I use IKEv2/IPSec which I find just as fast as nordlynx (wireguard). I use network manager to enable it, switching between different servers is a matter of specific scripts. So overall I'm dissappointed by the now fact, that nordlynx is a mess, but I'm perfectly okay with IKEv2/IPSec.

If anyone is interrested, installing wireguard does solve the NordVPN disconnect problem that's been occurring for quite some time now.

Thanks, tadream, that's good to know, regardless of choice of VPN.

PIA = Private Internet Access works on MX Linux.

Per my earlier post in this thread, nordvpn continues to work with fehlix's workaround.

I've used express and proton's. I definitely would not recommend express. I don't trust nord nor proton either for that matter. Proton has an excellent server list but the linux client is a terminal windowed affair, last I checked, and I could not get it to update. I switched to Mullvad. Proper gui clients for everything and has a great privacy policy.
I was using sysvinit but the repos won't keep up so I switched to systemd. More important that my vpn service is latest than how I boot.

…I was using sysvinit but the repos won't keep up …

How so? Doesn't Mullvad provide its own custom app?

I have used Private Internet Access (PiA) for awhile now and it works great with every linux I've tried. It a paid for VPN but it works well for me.