At this point getting this app to work on any Linux distro is a gamble. The amount time I’ve wasted on troubleshooting, reconfiguring my network, restarting network daemons, systemds, services or reconfiguring system settings hoping it would fix my issues. Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, RedHat, Zorin I’ve tried them all and its always the same hassle. And IF you get it to work somehow it fails when you need it the most. “Oh youre away from home and want to enable Meshnet to connect to your home PC? Well, good luck with that. Here, have some error logs, that do not help at all with troubleshooting”…
Please Nord get your shit together or just pull the plug on linux development all together.
Sorry for ranting, but I’ve never seen an app with such an inconsistent experience from a multi-million$ company.
I’m using Ubuntu, seems to be working fine here. No problem with the features, but from time to time it can lose a connection and I just have to type connect on the CLI. It used to happen about once per day, but for the last month it has been solid and no disconnection. Not sure why it’s not working for you.
I run nord under mint 20.2. For the longest time (years) I found that running a version several years old and turning off updates worked ok. Now I am using the current version, but have most of the settings turned off (for example, enabling “Kill Switch” is absolutely a disaster.) In my current configuration, I find nord hangs maybe once or twice a day and I have to manually reconnect. Furthermore, I occasionally find there is a really nasty problem which can be solved easiest with a reboot. (not worth trying to manually debug at the command line). In a previous lifetime (back when I was a university student), I managed a network of UNIX workstations, so I have a good knowledge of sys admin. I definitely would hate using nord on linux if I was a casual linux user. IMO, nord is not stable enough to be run in a professional setting.
I will say this, I was pleasantly surprised the one time I contacted support to find they actually do have people on staff that know linux.
Concur. I had an older (late 2017/early 2018) beast of a desktop replacement notebook running – at various times – Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, or various lesser known builds, about 7 distros in all since 2019. I would literally change distros just to see which would give me the smoothest experience specifically with Nord and a few other security tools. Nord was always the biggest problem. Always.
That notebook’s been put away. On a newer one I can make it work halfheartedly with Mint, but it takes some extra steps every. single. time.
[Note: Not asking for advice here, since the level of function I have now is good enough and frankly I lack the time to tinker further, just sharing in the OP’s frustration and venting]
Agreed. I’m using Arch and autoconnect only works occasionally at startup. When it does connect automatically, it often connects to a server that is foreign when I specified P2P in the settings. Those servers are always very slow for me and I usually have to connect to a P2P server again to actually get a decent speed with a more local server.
On a separate matter, there is a setting for notifications that has never worked for me on KDE.
It would sure be nice to have a gui too, like the one in Windows, but not if they can’t provide a proper CLI program first.
I don’t think that I will pay for NordVPN again. I’m disappointed. Things that I thought would be fixed simply have not.
I’m running the latest Nord on Linux Mint 21, and I have to say it’s working pretty flawlessly for me. Easy to turn it on and off whenever I need to with very simple CLI commands. Haven’t had any sort of trouble worth mentioning. At first I missed the GUI (coming from Windows 10/11 where I’d been using the GUI for about five years), but that lasted all of 5 minutes. The CLI is so simple and straightforward, I don’t think it could be any easier.
Adding to this, there is a project on GitHub called ‘nordnm’ (it’s in both the AUR and MPR). It’s kind of a NordVPN setup wizard for OpenVPN and NetworkManager.