Rusty 🦑Gang I used a Linux laptop all day today for the first time since like 2004 and it was extremely good
alexandra catalina@rustyk5 i was on the verge of switching permanently then i couldn't get it to connect to my vpn lol
@catalina oh no! I got three different VPNs working, although two don't work at the same time but should. What kinda vpn is it?
@rustyk5 [extremely nerds voice] https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
@catalina maybe try https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/NetworkManager? The networkmanager plugin for OpenVPN worked really well.
@rustyk5 tried the networkmanager plugin, i think it didn't have the right key exchange methods? (duder i was talking to deleted his replies and i forget https://twitter.com/dunndunndunn/status/837845823882838016)
then i tried manually configuring it and it connected, but dropped out like once per minute
@rustyk5 and i deleted some old gists yesterday and those were among them lolllllllllllll
@catalina ugh what a pain. I tried Streisand recently and the l2tp vpn that iOS supports natively was also really unreliable. OpenVPN is actually pretty good I guess
@rustyk5 yeah there's an openvpn client that works fine, but IKEv2 is built-in on ios and macos and algo generates the little profile file that configures both
Peter Rojas@rustyk5 Which distro?
@peterrojas Gallium on a 2013 Chromebook Pixel! I tried Ubuntu first and it was so-so but Gallium is terrific
@rustyk5 I could use a second laptop, that is a tempting option.
Peter❆@rustyk5 I had a back and forth with linux for a while and now I sometimes forget that there is other systems one could run.
@peter I was Linux-only from like '96 to probably 2006? The intel iMac won me over with unixy guts and a well-designed ui. Been on macs since, but the rise of cheap but fairly high quality chromebooks made me wonder how Linux is these days
@rustyk5 I use a Mac but still finds it UI confusing. I even struggle how to do an update, and let helpdesk deal with most of that crap. In the end I only used it to run a browser and ssh to a linux machine.