I will tell you that every email interaction with Windscribe has been amusing so that bodes well for what I think of them. That is not a fault of the service, just the fact that I know so little about them. I don’t like that I am not quite familiar with Windscribe. Not a problem for me or likely most Linux users, but there are some that just won’t use it. There isn’t a graphical interface for the terminal-phobic folks. After listening to this episode of Destination Linux, I felt like it was a good idea to intact some sort of VPN when I’m out and about. Since I am using this when I am away from home, I don’t expect any break-neck speeds out of it, I just prefer that my traffic is at least somewhat protected. The installation was simple, using it is simple (so long as you are good with the command line) and the performance is very acceptable. If that is all up your ally, and you like the free service, it all seems pretty well worth it to me. If you buy a one year subscription for $49, you are benefited by Unlimited Data, Access to all their locations which they boast as over 60 countries and 110 cities, a Config Generator for OpenVPN IKEv2 SOCKSS which, to my understanding will allow me to use NetworkManager to access the service, and R.O.B.E.R.T. There is a paid option, which, in my opinion is very reasonable, if you buy a year at a time and I think, if you travel a lot, this may be of great interest to you to protect your data. That will give you an output, something like this: To check the status of your account usage, in the terminal type It looks cool and very convenient to drop it down whenever I need it.įor the free account, you are limited to 10 GiB of data. This is a drop-down terminal that is invoked, on my machine with Meta+F12. You can take it one step further in the cool, fun, I am a hacker-poser-type if you run it in a terminal emulator called Yakuake. Installation to execution is truly as simple as I have outlined above. Chances are, if you are using openSUSE and are hyper concerned about protecting your traffic, using the terminal is not exactly going to cause you to have heartburn. There currently isn’t a graphical tool for using windscribe in Linux, or at least openSUSE. Those may or may not be necessary for you, but just in case, there you go and your welcome! First Run and Impressions If the windscribe daemon service does not automatically start up, you may have to start it manually as root.Īnd if you want to have it enabled at startup If you need further information on how to use these other features, please visit the site as I am just using the basic functionality of it here. If you need further help about how to use the different functions of Windscribe. You will be connected and ready to be part of the cool-kid VPN club. Connect to WindscribeĪnd that is all there is to it. Switch to non-root userįollow the steps with your newly created account 7. This is telling zypper to add the repository (ar) and naming it “windscribe”. Get a Windscribe AccountĬreate a free account if you don’t have one already 2. This is my adaptation of their instructions for openSUSE and is well tested on Tumbleweed. These instructions are easily adapted to the fantastic Zypper package manager. No matter, I am not a complete “noob” to the Linux-ing and since Fedora and openSUSE packages are like close cousins (in my experience, but I am often wrong), setting this up for openSUSE was pretty darn straight forward. They have left out openSUSE and that makes me just a bit frowny faced. Although, I did notice that there was a lack of definition of my favorite Linux distribution. Another well presented download for Linux button.
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