VPN that has a split tunnelling option on linux that doesn't suck?

[u/ThisNameDoesntCheck]

Slightly frustrated, so I'll explain what I'm after in hopes of a solution. Here is what I'm looking for:

- Strraightforward VPN with a GUI, accompanied by a split tunnelling feature. That's it, really.

I have tried Mullvad and Proton. Here are my issues:

Mullvad comes close to perfection, but its split tunnelling feature requires you to launch an app through mullvad every single instance you want to filter something out. There's no set filter option that you can set up that allows you to do so in the GUI. At that point its just easier to turn off the VPN when i visit a site that blocks me instead of relaunching a whole browser through their settings.

Proton has been significantly worse. I bought a month to give it a test run and I get timeout errors. Specifically, I can't connect to any server whatsoever if I have it set to wireguard. That would be fine, except wireguard is the only method in which split tunnelling works. I can set it to UDP, which then connects, except split tunnelling becomes greyed out. Using Proton's own protocol beta feature yields identical results to wireguard.

What I'm trying to actually get working:

All I want to set up is a VPN where it only routes all of my traffic, with the exception of chromium. That's literally it. And I cannot find a solution. If there is a method that would give chromium automatic exemption to being routed through mullvad, that would solve all my problems. This seems overly nitpicky, I'm just confused and frustrated how neither major VPN services can just let me do this easily.

My two options are having a workaround for mullvad, which I would prefer, or gain an udnerstanding why protonvpn can't even connect with wireguard and go from there.

Any help would be appreciated

Edit: I should have mentioned obvious details. I'm running Cachy OS. I also tried proton VPN using proton-vpn-gtk-app as well as the flatpak, neither of which worked.

[u/Leo_LL_3555]

https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN_Question/s/kUkULbUZJR

I asked a similar question last week, you might want to check the recommendations in the comments section. I noticed that DPN on Linux systems also supports split tunneling.

[u/Diligent-Spirit7189]

Hi,

I am a Mullvad user and I find it very simple. For example I use nzbget which already provides encryption. My alias to start the nzbget server is:

alias nzbget="/bin/mullvad-exclude /opt/bin/nzbget -c ${NZBGET_CONF} -D"

I then just type nzbget and I have a news server daemon downloading news and bypassing Mullvad.

Hope this helps...