• Vincent@feddit.nl
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    3 months ago

    AFAIK it’s based on Distrobox, which allows you to work in containers with access to key host services that you need, which I think should be sufficient for a VPN.

    (In fact, for VPNs specifically Flatpaks are sufficient as well - I’m using Mozilla VPN via a Flatpak.)

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      3 months ago

      Private Internet Access doesn’t come as a flatpak, deb, or rpm, unfortunately. I’d have to build my own and come up with a way to automatically build it so I don’t have to manually do it each time PIA releases a new update.

      Podman containers via distrobox don’t work well for PIA, for whatever reason, so if I decide to pursue that, I’ll likely have to learn podman. I’m currently trying to install PIA during the build process of a custom uBlue image, and that has its own challenges.

      Basically, PIA is making me consider switching to another provider just to be done with it. 😅