The macOS installer is a universal installer. Meaning it contains the entire app twice. Once for Intel and one for Apple Silicon. With a macOS installer for only one architecture its size would be cut in half. Windows…
The 500 MiB thing is because the frontend is an Electron app. That's sadly how it is with Electron. The UI can of course be re-written into a language/framework that produces way smaller programs, but it's not currently…
This can be very confusing indeed, since there are multiple ways of doing multihop. Please see my description in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012071. The guide at…
Your description is correct for the configuration files, yes! But it's not correct for the app. There are multiple ways of doing multihop with Mullvad. The config files use a simple redirect where each server has a…
The macOS installer is a universal installer. Meaning it contains the entire app twice. Once for Intel and one for Apple Silicon. With a macOS installer for only one architecture its size would be cut in half. Windows…
The 500 MiB thing is because the frontend is an Electron app. That's sadly how it is with Electron. The UI can of course be re-written into a language/framework that produces way smaller programs, but it's not currently…
This can be very confusing indeed, since there are multiple ways of doing multihop. Please see my description in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012071. The guide at…
Your description is correct for the configuration files, yes! But it's not correct for the app. There are multiple ways of doing multihop with Mullvad. The config files use a simple redirect where each server has a…