Hey! Ive just got Fedora 39 on my PC. I’m new into Linux, but I liked the way Fedora looks and so on. But as a former windows user, I was glad to use Proton VPN. On windows it just worked well, and my local Broadcaster homepage didn’t notice that I was using, Secure Core, via example Switzerland though a server in my country. But now, when I use Proton VPN in fedora, the broadcaster notice that my internet goes via another country, and dosnt let me whatch. I juse the App I found on Flatpak. Is there something I should investigate more , of some easy tweaks to make it work well again?
I’ve always preferred to use OpenVPN configuration files for setting up VPNs on Linux, rather than using the VPN providers app.
Basically, you need to install a few packages:
openvpnandnetworkmanager-openvpn. This second one is optional, but it allows you to simply pick a VPN connection from the same drop-down applet you connect to WiFi from.Then, all you do is head to https://account.protonvpn.com/downloads, download the OpenVPN configuration files, extract them somewhere, then use the network manager menu to pick one of the servers. When you’re adding the connection, it’ll require your VPN login info. This isn’t the same as your regular login though, to find that, head to https://account.protonvpn.com/account, and the credentials are listed under “OpenVPN/IKEv2 Username”.
Once this is setup, connecting to a VPN is as simple as opening your network applet, then clicking on your VPN of choice. You can add as many VPN connections as you want to switch between servers easily. Really handy to not need a VPN providers’ specific app just to connect to a server.
Yeah but vpn servers get blacklisted way too often. You’re going to need to download a new config everytime
Personally never ran into this. And if I did, downloading an archive full of configuration files takes 10 seconds and adding a new connection takes no longer. Not a big deal imo.
Yeah but connecting to a new connection in command line is even faster
protonvpn-cli c -fTrue. I made a bash script for that, and it runs on boot. Super easy and seamless.
I like having a visual method, and having it in my connections menu makes the most sense to me. But fair point, the CLI route is quickest.
Protonvpn also has a gui though. I mean I think having the openvpn setup has some advantages since some systems might not be natively supported or don’t have the need for changing servers, however, I’ve tried using that on my personal devices and it just wasn’t for me.
Hey fair enough, to each their own. I like my method because it feels ‘native’ to the given DE, like it was included by default. I’ve used multiple gui apps from different providers, don’t really miss any features they had that my method doesn’t.
Thank you for the great answer, and help. But I think its for now ( I’m a newbe) to much ways , I’m just learning 😀
This is the proper native way to get protonvpn on fedora
I haven’t had luck with proton VPN on my LMDE machines, so I just used the wire guard configs instead.
That’s interesting, I use protonvpn’s official deb on ubuntu and it works just fine
Glad it works for you! I contacted their support team and they basically told me to kick rocks since they don’t officially support LMDE. Maybe I’ll give a try again later, but wire guards been working well enough for me
Hey! Thank you all for the support. Well im trying to learn all the wonders of Linux. Ive now installed the app with the terminal, it didnt help with my problem, maybe my browser sends some location?, but now ive got the official app, and that feels more secure. thank you.
Seconding to use the protonvpn CLI program, it always worked well for me. These days I just use wireguard config files though, they’re much easier as you can just add them to networkmanager and you’ll auto connect on boot. IME the official VPN programs are often buggy. I also added a module to my waybar to show if I’m connected or not for peace of mind that the vpn started up correctly without any other indicator (if you use a DE you might already have an indicator for vpn connections)
