The link right here goes to 40:02 of Proton’ boss on the TLE channel about Linux support, where a Drive Client is deemed so difficult to achieve that they don’t even have a roadmap for it. Nor is the word “Linux” featured anywhere on proton’s pages about Drive.
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If I believe what I see on Lemmy, 99% of users here are on Linux, and the 1% remaining probably are just waiting on a Drive Linux Client to make the switch, right? Right?
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@pathief @reallyzen “Catering” only to Ubuntu is a path, but is it a path that most Proton VPN paid subscribers take? I doubt that Proton has asked it’s Proton VPN users - I know I’ve never been asked.
Many vendors offer a DEB solution and a RPM solution. Why do vendors prefer to arbitrarily drop DEB and RPM and switch exclusively to Canonical? Especially when many Linux users lump Canonical in with Microsoft? Is it possible that Proton VPN is unaware of this? I don’t think so.
The problem isn’t just the packaging format, it’s the quality of the application. It’s missing a ton of functionalities that exist in the windows version. Wireguard isn’t available, for instance. And have you seen the design? Why do other OS get a beautiful application and we have that?
@pathief I don’t think I would hold MS up as a baseline minimum standard to match.
Proton does improve their products; even in the Linux world. There is room for improvement. Which company has reached the mountaintop where there is no room for improvement? None of them.
The best users can do is keep asking. To fail to do that is an indicator that better Linux support doesn’t matter. It does matter - very much.
Proton does improve their products, that’s true. I’m very happy with the improvements they have been making with Proton Pass, for instance.
But they don’t improve their linux products, at least not at a reasonable pace. How many years to we need to wait for WireGuard support? Or ipv6? :/
@pathief Ask Proton.
Is wireguard itself still beta? It’s been a while since I considered it so I’'m not up on it.
IP6 is freaky. Everyone is yelling for IP6 - few have done more than dip a toe into that pool. No one wants to support both IP4 and IP6 and many are waiting to be forced to shift from 4 to 6. Expect chaos when that day finally comes.
Proton supports Wireguard on Windows for several years now.
@pathief It seems Wireguard has reached v1 https://www.wireguard.com/install/ Available on MacOs, BSD, various Linux distros, Androd, IOS, and Windows.
Ask Proton if they are working on Wirguard for Linux.
If you use the config file generator from the Proton website, you can have a Wiregard config tailor-made to load in NetworkManager for instance. Or several with or without NAT, different exits and so on.
I don’t know how this isn’t widely known, it’s been there for a while.
I know about this but it sucks for several reasons:
This doesn’t use the proton vpn client
You need to setup configuration files for each country you wish to connect
You configure a server directly, you can’t just connect to “France” and have the client choose the server with the least load
You can no longer select a random country, you have to introduce the randomness yourself
You have to manage configurations like kill switches on your own, since you’re no longer using the proton client
It’s certainly a viable option, but why must linux users have all these drawbacks? :|