Also experiencing this issue with multiple VPN providers. Have to keep trying different servers/locations to get past it. Would really appreciate if this solution was improved or replaced.

If you like immutable systems, you might want to check out Fedora Kinoite if you haven’t already.

I’m using Fedora since I found it fast to setup, fairly stable and it just works. It’s the community version of RHEL which hopefully means there will continue to be an incentive to support it.

I’ve always been a bit on the fence about Linux Mint since the incident where someone managed to publish a hacked distro on their site that installed a backdoor.

Other than that, I agree with what some others have mentioned; it’s mostly a matter of personal preference.