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ExpressVPN Adds A GUI To Their Linux App

([Linux Networking] 114 Minutes Ago ExpressVPN Linux App)


There are a number of NetworkManager VPN plug-ins for different virtual private networking providers as a great way for setting up VPN access from the Linux desktop. But for those interested in using ExpressVPN with their official Linux client, they now offer a GUI to ease the setup process for using their commercial VPN service and proprietary software package.

ExpressVPN previously provided a CLI-only Linux build but today they announced a new Linux app in beta with "an all-new graphical user interface and advanced features." From the GUI features like split tunneling, a configurable kill switch, and other functionality can be managed.

It's nice of them enhancing their VPN software for Linux with a GUI now, but it's a proprietary package and only available for Linux x86_64 installations. Most Linux users are best off using a solution that's compatible with the NetworkManager VPN plug-ins for a nice and integrated -- and open-source -- experience with modern Linux desktops. Plus VPN services supporting WireGuard as opposed to OpenVPN and the proprietary Lightway VPN protocol of ExpressVPN. They have vetted their ExpressVPN Linux GUI app beta on Ubuntu, Debian (including Raspberry Pi OS), Fedora, Linux Mint, and Arch Linux.

Those wanting to learn more about the new ExpressVPN Linux app can do so via the [1]ExpressVPN.com blog .



[1] https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/linux-gui-app/



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The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest is held ever year at San Jose State
Univ. by Professor Scott Rice. It is held in memory of Edward George
Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), a rather prolific and popular (in his
time) novelist. He is best known today for having written "The Last
Days of Pompeii."

Whenever Snoopy starts typing his novel from the top of his doghouse,
beginning "It was a dark and stormy night..." he is borrowing from Lord
Bulwer-Lytton. This was the line that opened his novel, "Paul Clifford,"
written in 1830. The full line reveals why it is so bad:

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents -- except
at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of
wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene
lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty
flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.