Since the last couple of months Proton has been asking me for passwords when trying to connect to a server about 85% of the time.
At first I would have to close the app and start it up again, just so that it would stop trying to connect to that server and requesting the password. The starting up process is really slow as well. And then I’d have to try again and repeat the whole process multiple times before it would connect.
Now I’m using the cli and I can at least interrupt the connection to try again without having to restart when it asks for a password. Still it takes me around 10 minutes to get it to work every time.
Does anyone have a solution for this, Proton is great I love the company and what it stands for, but this is making me want to switch.
Yup, using Proton VPN on Linux has been a very disappointing experience. This will be my last month as a paying customer. It’s a shame too, because I agree with your last statement.
Protonvpn on linux is unusable. The best thing to do is to download wireguard profiles and use them manually.
It’s less convenient, and you won’t have most of protonvpn features but it’s your only solution.
I had this problem on arch. Solution for me was to install the network-manager-applet package. Package name is the same on RPM-based distros and I think network-manager-gnome provides it on debian-based distros. Hope it helps!
I was having the issue on the message a while ago, using endeavour os, for what I understood when fixing it was that as endeavour didn’t have preisntalled some stuff like libraries from the network manager and some wireguard and openvpn packages (saw a video about it, don’t fully remember) it wasn’t able to connect to openvpn, so I downloaded those packages and restarted, then it worked all fine, I can confirm I am currently able to run protonvpn through openvpn files, cli and app
I don’t believe I had the scenario of being constantly requested for the password tho just first time I think
I had nothing but issues really but their support was really good and resolving my issues. They mentioned a new app version that would improve the Linux experience I think
u/yagonia I had recently same experience with ProtonVPN using openvpn too. I switched to WireGuard yesterday, and it seems to work seamlessy since then. Just download wireguard config and import it into the NetworkManager.
I use the old Linux desktop app. It’s not very good, but all we have an Arch Linux. But I found I only got the password request on some servers, sometimes. Changing to another server seemed to fix it. Proton hates Linux (probably getting backhanders from Microsoft)
linux is horrific with VPNs. Cyberghost use left me with no WIFI connection and many hours of attempted fixes to sort. Ive never gone back to Linux because of the VPN issues.
just first time I think