How I install Mullvad on Silverblue based distros and add repos
One of the things I struggled with initailly when using immutables was installing programs like VPNS that need to interact with the immutable parts of the distro but don't have a flatpak option. I figured I'd just make a post to help anyone with this specific issue regarding mullvad or if it helps people install other software they need.
Adding the repo
Jump into a location to download the repo file
cd Downloads/
Download the repo
wget https://repository.mullvad.net/rpm/stable/mullvad.repo
copy the repo file to the yum.repos.d folder
sudo cp mullvad.repo /etc/yum.repos.d
Install mullvad vpn
rpm-ostree install mullvad-vpn
Reboot to reimage
systemctl reboot
Join the client to the service
sudo systemctl enable --now mullvad-daemon
Install libappindicator that at the time wasn't included in Kinoite
sudo rpm-ostree install libappindicator-gtk3
Reboot to reimage
systemctl reboot
I don't know anything about immutable distros, but any good VPN provide Wireguard or OpenVPN config that you can just import into your network settings/manager. Mullvad does.
They do, but networkmanager doesnt have the necessary features like a block mode. Read my other comment.
Btw there is a GNOME applet for mullvadvpn, so you dont need to use electron, just the background stuff.
Came here to say this too
While this is true, using Wireguard or OpenVPN config files requires more fuss to change servers compared to using the provider's VPN client.