all my homies hate openvpn  

 I'm proud to share my location.. Fuck vpn 

 Wish they'd accept LN natively.  

 Just dropping this in case
https://vpn.sovereign.engineering/ 

 There's added fees on this I think, last I checked. Fair enough, just would prefer if Mullvad accepted directly.  

 I wrote support@mullvad.net twice to ask for native LN support and mentioned the reseller but they only said they will forward the feedback. Maybe more people need to write them. 

 I just asked them again for an update on the status after 1.5 years 

 Oh, there has been an update: they changed their mail address. Use support@mullvadvpn.net now.

> Thanks for contacting Mullvad VPN support.
>
> Please be aware that since February 2024 we host our own secure email server with a new address.
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/we-now-self-host-our-support-email
>
> support@mullvadvpn.net
>
> Please re-send your request to this email (using English or Swedish) and we'll be happy to assist you there. 

 > Hello
>
> We do plan to add support for it but I don't have any ETA for this.
>
> Best regards

-_- 

 it's better in pretty much every way, the only drawback of wireguard is that it only works over UDP, so you can't run it over some proxies *cough* Tor *cough*
(but, apparently mullvad has their own workaround for this https://mullvad.net/en/blog/introducing-wireguard-over-tcp-and-ipv6 as well as shadowsocks support https://mullvad.net/en/blog/introducing-shadowsocks-obfuscation-for-wireguard which i think can also work around that) 

 Well I would say that Wireguard was intended to be the easiest VPN protocol. But also I would like to note that for some usecases not having link layer forces orgs to move to OpenVPN that has much bloater codebase and is generally slower. 

 sure, enterprise VPN is a different world
many bloated protocols there and sometimes, even with good reason 

 I still use openvpn. Mullvad isn't the only VPN provider. 

 that's for sure, but they're also not the only VPN provider that supports wireguard 

 I think VPN providers should support both protocols and let the users decide.  

 ELI5 🙏 

 NVM:

 https://mullvad.net/en/blog/wireguard-future 

 I personally use Tailscale, not really for privacy, but for convenient access to my home network and iot.  I think it is built upon wireguard, and has vpn-like features that I haven't explored yet.