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I wish people would stop automatically recommending Algo, for instance it doesn't support Arch. It's the best if your platform is supported. Otherwise, it's eas
by curiousgal 7y ago
I wish people would stop automatically recommending Algo, for instance it doesn't support Arch. It's the best if your platform is supported. Otherwise, it's easier to just manually set up everything.
- dewey 7y agoSo they shouldn't recommend a project that works for a bunch of popular platforms out of the box because it doesn't support one niche OS?
- kungtotte 7y agoThree of the top 20 list on distrowatch are Arch or Arch derivatives, including the number 2 spot. Its wiki is widely recommended as well for users of any distro. "Niche" is a bad way to describe Arch. It's probably more likely that a person interested in setting up WireGuard and their own VPN are running Arch or a derivative than any other distro.
- dfc 7y agoI love Arch's wiki and the userbase's enthusiasm. But how in the world do you think Arch is the most probable distro base for a wg user? Using your distrowatch reference, 4 of the top 5 are Debian based.
- kungtotte 7y agoI was looking at it from a perspective of who would be likely to install WG and set up their own VPN. This is me guessing (that's why I hedged and said probably), but I suspect there is great overlap in the tinkering and DIY attitude of Arch users and WG users. Mostly I was responding to the statement that Arch was a niche distro.