I think that really depends on whether you need all traffic routed through the tunnel/vpn and what else you were trying to accomplish. For just basic system acc

I think that really depends on whether you need all traffic routed through the tunnel/vpn and what else you were trying to accomplish. For just basic system access there isn’t much advantage to vpn, but it would really depend on what you’re trying to accomplish (keep people out? Just secure your connection to another machine? Etc.).