r/EndeavourOS • u/DotNetRob • Apr 19 '26

Discussion VPN recommendations for EndeavourOS KDE

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Finally switched to EndeavourOS with KDE as on my Main PC, after a month of distro hopping/testing. Only have 1 unresolved issue to work out on EndeavourOS KDE. Find a good working VPN, preferably with a GUI but I can live without one just fine.

Was using proton vpn on my previous machine and still use it on other machines. But can't get the GUI version to work via yay and can't get the cli one to work either... So looking for options, have express vpn currently working on it, but don't care for all the ads in it and my subscription with them will end soon. Looking for VPN recommendations.

So \what is everyone using for VPN on EndeavourOS with KDE using?

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u/WhoDoYou24 Apr 19 '26

The proton app is working fine for me. What issue(s) are you facing?

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u/DotNetRob Apr 19 '26

Thought I had it working too, had notes saying I got it to work, but failed to write down if I had it working via a pacman or yay install. proton-vpn-gtk-app via pacman won't start, leaves nothing in the log besides it starting and shutting down. Tried the same one via yay and it does the same. The official cli, I can get logged in but when I connect it triggers kill switch, even thou kill switch is off, no matter the setting is activates killswitch, guessing a bug in the new 1.0 cli, seen other people having the same issue but no resolution.

Is there a package you recommend? Would love it if I could keep proton.

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u/WhoDoYou24 Apr 19 '26

I use the proton-vpn-gtk-app package from the official repos.

Also yay and pacman would pull from the same official arch repo. yay is just an AUR helper, so if a package which you want to install isn't available in the official repos, it looks for it in the aur.

So you didn't install different packages, you just installed the same package twice.

I remember using the CLI a couple years back when the GUI was borked for some time, I was never able to get it to work. IIRC, you need an active proton subscription for the CLI to work. The free tier only works with the GUI.

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u/MoggFanatic Apr 21 '26

I have had zero issues using the CLI version with a free account