so im in the market for another vpn, PIA was great but got bought out. i tried VYPRVPN, for 2 years. random windows CPU usage, i had a 5 month back and forth with their support team and they really did try, there was just something in their program or maybe the base language? their vpn keepalive service that is active even when the VPN IS OFF randomly takes 3-5 cpu cycles every few seconds, which i wouldn’t really mind, but it drains battery life and starts up under heavy workloads and eats away at performance, minimally but still.
I am in the market for a VPN that has a full gui with none of the features missing for linux. I am sick of the cli based clients. VPN unlimited has the full suite with gui available but my government seem to block their services from running properly.
In case anyone stumbles across this and has the same question, VPN unlimited has a full featured app for Linux. But they are slower as they give away their derive for a 100 dollars for a lifetime. Purchased mine like 6 years ago, it still works. But maybe at half the speed. And in my country, the authentication protocols seem to be blocked, or limited so sometimes it takes 10 to 15 mins to connect
You gotta choose ease of use or battery life. 3-5% is not normal but a 3rd party GUI application will always use a bit more CPU.
The OpenVPN cli (if available) is not hard to use but of course doesn’t have any extra features. To get good responses you should have added which features you want to see supported.