Tried installing Proton VPN Messed up my laptop in a bad way

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Yesterday as a new member of protons premium package I went to install the GUI applications first but after those wouldn’t work (kept asking me for password, which I think I’d the proton pgp after decryption). Anyways I went to uninstall the GUI applications and then went to the CLI uninstall page and followed the commands. I felt like even now it was asking me for a password to continued urse, no not my admin password.

Now today I can’t connect to my bitwarden application it keeps saying failed to fetch and to connect online it won’t take the password I to my WiFi I’ve been using for 2 months now.

Somewhere along the way of the proto. Install/uninstall I fucked up here are the sites I used to do both. My goal is to get proton comrtelt off laptop, be able to use the WiFi and bitwarden app and install clamav moving forward.

Here’s the link I uses yesterday for proton install/uninstall.

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Inatall flatseal app and see if bitwarden have the network access permission.

This does not clear

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I have no network access it won’t let Mr connect st all it keep asking me for password yesterday before I uninstalled. I uninstalled anyway and Noe I think my system won’t connect. Here the commands I followed yesterday. After the GUI kept asking for 0asswor(i think it was the proton pgp key, the CLI did the same so I went with the unistall options now GUI for Bitwarden won’t load nor will my network connect

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Proton completely* off and get system back working/connected.

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I use protonVPN on my Fedora 36 KDE. Very good tool that I trust. Forget the GUI, it has huge memory leak problems that I reported several times and take enormous amount of memory anyway. I just use the CLI, which is very well done and takes very little memory : it works very well up to now. On Manjaro, I had several times a day a 30-60 sec where the network did not respond. I dont know why. On Fedora , all is OK

System:
  Kernel: 5.17.11-300.fc36.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.37-27.fc36
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.17.11-300.fc36.x86_64 root=/dev/nvme0n1p4
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.3 wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1
    dm: SDDM Distro: Fedora release 36 (Thirty Six)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF GAMING Z490-PLUS v: Rev 1.xx
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2601
    date: 10/29/2021
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-10700F bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet Lake
    family: 6 model-id: 0xA5 (165) stepping: 5 microcode: 0xF0
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 8x256 KiB
    L3: 16 MiB desc: 1x16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4800 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800
    8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 13: 800 14: 800 15: 800 16: 800
    bogomips: 92796
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thanks for this I might try the CLI again soon this last time I was stuck when i t asked me fornw code but I found out it was the pgp sitting in my Wallet waiting to use.

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Did you install the protonvpn from www.proton.me?

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yes but i deleted it now an need to start a new thead after seing if my answer is here already. Regarding ClamAV

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