My personal opinion is to install VPN always as layered since flatpkas might have still restrictions and quirks how they work
But the commands mentioned on official page start with dnf and it does not work on fedora silverblue. Are there modified commands instead
Go to downloads folder use the Winget command to download the package there
Then use rpm-ostree install protonvpn-stable-release-1.0.1-2.noarch.rpm
Reboot after
You could try and test the flatpak version if this gets too complicated or time consuming at least first
i think it should be safe to use proton vpn free at the system level while i use nordvpn in the browser
as far as i remember i tried many commands however most likely i typed the below command
rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/secureblue/silverblue-main-hardened:latest
and later after reboot i got the fedora secureblue pop up window
i contacted nordvpn customer support and the provided the below solution. will try that the second time as it did not work when i tried it the first time
Isabel Bonilla (NordVPN)
Oct 29, 2024, 11:05 GMT+2
Hello,
Thank you for your reply.
The NordVPN version 3.19 is a stable release.
Please try to reinstall the Nord application to the latest version 3.19.
sudo rpm-ostree uninstall nordvpn
Download the RPM package:
wget https://repo.nordvpn.com/yum/nordvpn/centos/x86_64/Packages/n/nordvpn-3.19.0-1.x86_64.rpm
And install it:
sudo rpm-ostree install /path/to/package.rpm
Afterward, reboot the system.
sudo systemctl reboot
That doesnât work the issue is nordVPN 3.19.0 with network manager and modem manager etc with there latest ripped package to reduced size almost 13MB smaller size than stable 3.18.5.
These issues happen on Ubuntu, openSUSE, fedora etc and only atomics are affected for canât install nordVPN 3.19.0 others normal version you can install but you have constant network manager disconnect issues, nordvpnd needs to restart, Killswitch gets stuck and need to restart system
I have been debugging these issue for month or more with NordVPN and sending logs and they have confirmed that there is lots of issues for 3.19 and they are working on fixes, but donât have idea when so I recommend to stay on 3.18.5 since it works just works