Platform

VPNs with a Linux client

Providers that ship a Linux client — the first platform in this taxonomy that actually separates the register.

41 of 68 records in the registerOrdered by securityUpdated 14 September 2026

The HushFleet teamRegister of 26 September 2026

Providers shipping a client for a platform, one page per platform. This is the most commercial of the eight taxonomies and the least interesting to the security model: it says what you can install, not what the operator keeps.

A browser extension is not a system client and is counted separately — the difference decides whether traffic outside the browser is covered at all.

Linux

Ranked by security

Linux is worth 2 of the 20 platform points in the usability score (usability.curves.platforms): Android, iOS, macOS and Windows 3 each; Linux and Routers 2 each; Android TV, Apple TV, Browser extension and Fire TV 1 each.

All 41 platform lists here were read off a published page (U01_platforms, origin document). Nothing was run on the platform: the list says what ships, not how it behaved. 22 of the 41 also document router support, which is how a household covers the devices that will never run a client.

Not on this platform

27 providers without a Linux client

The complement over U01_platforms among the 68 ranked records, each with its security score. A record that later lists a Linux client moves from here to the list above.

U01_platforms has a closed vocabulary of exactly these ten terms: a platform outside the list is not published at all, so this row is the whole of what a record can claim to ship a client for.

What that buys a reader is a word that means the same thing on every record — the platform a record names is one of these, spelled this way, or it is not there.

Acceptable
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Acceptable
2
Weak
3
Weak
4
Insufficient
5
Insufficient
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Insufficient
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Insufficient
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Insufficient
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Insufficient
10
Insufficient
11
Insufficient
12
Insufficient
13
Not recommended
14
Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
22
Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
26
Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
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Not recommended
41

On this platform

What the 41 records say: kill switch, split tunnelling, devices, protocols

Each answer is the record’s own and has no platform axis beyond “desktop only” (U08_kill_switch, U09_split_tunneling, U10_simultaneous_devices); the protocol list is the provider’s whole list, not what ships here (U07_protocols). The last column says where the platform list itself came from and the day it was read.

Provider	Kill switch coverage	Split tunneling available	Simultaneous connections	Protocols offered	Platform list read from
Proton VPN	On every platform	Available	10	WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, An obfuscated protocol	Published page, read 12 Sep 2026
Mullvad VPN	unknown	Available	5	WireGuard	Published page, read 13 Aug 2026
IVPN	On every platform	Available	5	WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, An obfuscated protocol	Published page, read 26 Aug 2026

VPNs with a Linux client

Ranked by security

27 providers without a Linux client

The other nine platforms

What the 41 records say: kill switch, split tunnelling, devices, protocols