https://mullvad.net/en/help/install-mullvad-app-linux
Trying to install VPN and these are the instructions Mullvad is giving me. This is ridiculous. There must be a more simple way. I know how to follow the instructions but I have no idea what I’m doing here. Can’t I just download a file and install it? I’m on Ubuntu.
It seems Mullvad has the OpenVPN option tucked away as the very last option even though OpenVPN seems to be the easiest method. Why is that?
Because OpenVPN lacks the most important feature of them all - it will not remind you to top up your account balance.
Because they want to lock you into their app and make you think VPNs are complicated so you actually pay for the service.
As I’ve heard it, wireguard is much more secure.
More Performant, yes. More Secure? Not sure about that
I went with OpenVPN because it’s installed on Ubuntu by default. Wireguard needs one extra apt-get command.
I don’t think that Wireguard is more secure, its’s simpler and thus easier to audit, but OpenVPN was audited to the gills already.
Simpler software is usually just inherently more secure, because there are less attack surfaces. You can audit stuff but there’ll never be zero bugs. Also, Ubuntu doesn’t include Wireguard? I thought that would just get pulled in as a dependency/recommendation of NetworkManager or one of its plugins.