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If you are using Linux don't use the GUI app. It will lock up and leak past a killswitch.
The CLI app works ok. It annoyingly has issues reconnecting on reboot without disabling and renabling the killswitch. Sometimes it works, other times not.
You don't have to use any software from Proton VPN, they will allow you to download openvpn and wireguard config files so you can set up your own client. Takes some more effort to do it right, yes, but its a good option if you're up for it.
This is how I do it, but since I use KDE I just loaded up the configure file in the connection settings and pasted in my password. Took about 10 seconds.
What i found to work the best is to generate and download a config file, then import it into NetworkManager. There's a plugin for wireguard here: https://github.com/max-moser/network-manager-wireguard
This way, it's easy to add routes, autostart, etc. But I don't think a safe killswitch is possible.
Edit: But since this is a piracy community, i should mention that qbittorrent has a setting for specifying the network interface, so it's easy to force it to use the vpn connection only, in place of a killswitch.
As far as I know, proton doesn't allow port forwarding, so makes using it for torrenting suboptimal. If you want to use torrents with a VPN, there's better options
PF works with proton, I use it. But you have to continuously call it to stay open. (On linux)
Interesting - I haven’t had this issue with the gui. Thanks for the heads up!