WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6

Re:WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6 by curiousgal on Monday March 30, 2020 @06:03PM (#22732688)

I wish people would stop automatically recommending Algo, for instance it doesn't support Arch. It's the best if your platform is supported. Otherwise, it's easier to just manually set up everything.

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Re:WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6 by dewey on Monday March 30, 2020 @07:06PM (#22733090)

So they shouldn't recommend a project that works for a bunch of popular platforms out of the box because it doesn't support one niche OS?

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Re:WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6 by kungtotte on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @07:45AM (#22736624)

Three of the top 20 list on distrowatch are Arch or Arch derivatives, including the number 2 spot. Its wiki is widely recommended as well for users of any distro.

"Niche" is a bad way to describe Arch.

It's probably more likely that a person interested in setting up WireGuard and their own VPN are running Arch or a derivative than any other distro.

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Re:WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6 by dfc on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:43AM (#22737966)

I love Arch's wiki and the userbase's enthusiasm. But how in the world do you think Arch is the most probable distro base for a wg user? Using your distrowatch reference, 4 of the top 5 are Debian based.

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Re:WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6 by kungtotte on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @12:50PM (#22739497)

I was looking at it from a perspective of who would be likely to install WG and set up their own VPN. This is me guessing (that's why I hedged and said probably), but I suspect there is great overlap in the tinkering and DIY attitude of Arch users and WG users.

Mostly I was responding to the statement that Arch was a niche distro.

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