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submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Sometimes they work, and sometimes I have to close one or the other, or every connection gets blocked. I haven't blocked anything from Proton VPN on Portmaster - just some Windows services and domains that don't break the internet when Proton VPN is off.
Do you have any idea what may be happening or how I can discover what's going on?

  • both on the free plan.

Edit: I might have figured it out. It seems like they are fighting over DNS resolving. When I removed the DNS settings from Portmaster (it's already set in the browser anyway), it started working again :)

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[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago

Yes, Windows currently is a stable, usefull and good OS, exept that it is by default full of bloatware, spyware, unnecesary telemetries, services "to improve the user experience" which nobody needs....all not easy to gut, but possible. They say that Windows is easy to handle, but only seens so at the first look, to convert it in a good OS it needs an advanced user. In Linux is way easier, there is nothing hidden, but also has his drawbacks. In my new Laptop with W11, the first impression was that it was the worst UI I've ever seen, impossible the startmenu and the taskbar, not even customizable in a bad copy of an Mac desktop, apart of all other from the mencioned crap, which I culd strip out, to get rid of the UI, turning it back of the good customizable one from W10, I used a nice FOSS app, Windhawk, something like an userscript manager which permits to do almost everything with the UI. Settings are instantanly, no restart needed. Now I use an snappy fast and reasonable private W11 which use less than 1GB RAM, to my like, with an small Taskbar on the top of the screen, an Startmenu as it should be and some more tweaks.

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