For ProtonVPN as an example: you can go to the downloads section and download the wireguard config you want and then import it from the wireguard gui.
For me, I would never use other inferior VPN clients after knowing how efficient, supported and developed are the official Wireguard gui are.
Other providers who provide configs:
I depends what you mean by efficient. I find having the provider’s app that offers me location switching without manually downloading a config each time more efficient.
Thats great, but if you want to switch to another endpoint, change DNS servers, etc, the VPN app helps facilitate those changes, rather than you manually changing/updating wireguard configs.
There is a reason the VPNs provide those apps rather than just give you wireguard configs.
You stick the config in /etc/wireguard and then it’s just
wg-quick down endpoint1 ; wg-quick up endpoint2to switch locations. (Being wary that the VPN will be down for a moment.) You can name them whatever you like of course.Setting up DNS properly is not that hard and only needs doing once.
switch to another endpoint
Import multiple confis. That would solve this.
change DNS servers
You can change DNS server in the Wireguard app(by editing the config). It just requires some low amount of knowledge to do that.
You might prefer to use unofficial Wireguard/ VPN provider client. But It’s not the most efficient or the secure way to connect.
How likely are vpn (mullvad) configs to change over time? Will I end up having to constantly update them, which is something I assume the native app will do.
Secondly, do the wire guard tools include things like a killswitch on disconnect so I don’t accidentally send traffic if I get disconnected (eg when the VPN node I’m connected to goes down for maintenance)
This is especially handy on immutable Linux distros like Bazzite in cases where your provider’s client is only officially available as a .deb or .rpm and you don’t want to get in to layering.
I use Mullvad’s wireguard config file on my router, but the app is pretty convenient on mobile devices (phones, tablets, and laptops).
How exactly is the client of the provider inferior? I don’t use my vpn for security reasons, what benefits would i get from downloading and importing the config?
~200 MB less RAM use and 1% less CPU usage it seems lol
Airvpn does too.
I can’t find something like this for nordvpn
That’s cause NordVPN kinda sucks
Wireguard tends to bypass certain application firewalls altogether.
