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Proton Mail is the world's largest secure email provider. Swiss, end-to-end encrypted, private, and free.
Proton VPN is the world’s only open-source, publicly audited, unlimited and free VPN. Swiss-based, no-ads, and no-logs.
Proton Calendar is the world's first end-to-end encrypted calendar that allows you to keep your life private.
Proton Drive is a free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that allows you to securely backup and share your files. It's open source, publicly audited, and Swiss-based.
Proton Pass Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager which brings a higher level of security with rigorous end-to-end encryption of all data (including usernames, URLs, notes, and more) and email alias support.
SimpleLogin lets you send and receive emails anonymously via easily-generated unique email aliases.
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Last year I used Android (tablet with a physical keyboard and mouse was my "laptop") and nothing else. I was happy with Proton Unlimited. Lots of features and works great.
In April of 2025 I bought a used laptop and started using Linux Fedora Workstation.
It didn't take long to see how little support Proton gives to the Linux community. Protonvpn is garbage on Linux. Their app has almost no features.
Saying development is slow is being kind, it took Proton 8 years to give Linux users split-tunneling and we still have to give up Netguard and the killswitch to use it.
I watch Youtube with Freetube on my laptop and was getting blocked at least 6 times per day.
I tried Mullvadvpn and have gotten blocked only two of three times in the past two weeks.
Downloading from Proton Drive is very slow. Upload is quick enough, it's good for archiving. No Linux app so I use the browser.
Most of their other services work great. I have no issues with their email (through a browser) or ProtonPass via the app.
My account is up in June and I'm moving to separate services. Already on Mullvadvpn.
I'd immediately go with Mullvad, if they had port forwarding. I'm considering Proton for VPN (and nothing else), but it's really disconcerting how disparate is the range of opinions about Proton VPN. No idea where the truth is. Probably I'll just try the monthly subscription, so I can test and leave immediately if it doesn't work.
Testing is the best option and see what works best for you.
I torrent and have no issues seeding while using Mullvad. Maybe the seed takes longer, no sure, but it does happen.
PS: there seems to be a good explanation here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1g85476/guide_do_i_need_portforwarding/
One of the downsides with Mullvad, at least for me, is not being able to read Reddit without an account. Still, thanks for the info.
Thank you for this piece of info. OK that's also confusing, from what I understood, seeding is not possible without port forwarding? I have to go and fact-check again about this. Maybe test both Mullvad and ProtonVPN for one month... If I do, I'll report with a post here.