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No, your experiences are on-point. I'm stunned as to why Linux Mint is still advertised like this. "But it was historically easy on newbies" – yeah, probably; let's put some emphasis on that little "was". Fedora, Pop!_OS or EndeavourOS, whether you want RPM, APT or pacman to be your base, are currently doing a much better job at this. And still that unyielding "start with Ubuntu or Linux Mint, you can't go wrong with that"… no, I think today you seriously can.

dod format & get rid of that Virus Total "garbage". Good Luck!

And of course there's linux mint, which with its cinnamon window-manager option has long been the standard for linux beginners. In spite of having used fedora for a quarter of a century on my primary computers, some months ago I finally put mint/cinnamon on a late-2010 MacBook Air to revive it from the dead world of having dropped out of MacOS support. I chose mint intending to try transitioning a household Windows user to linux with it, but I've ended up just using it myself. Installation/setup was easy enough with a little help from googling (as long as I didn't insist on changing the video driver from the default), and I've been very pleased with the results. I'm typing on it now. I'm not an Eddie user so haven't tried that, but I do have both wireguard and OpenVPN running on it, the former using wg-quick per Air's instructions and the latter using Air's bluetit/goldcrest suite. Of the two it's wireguard that's by far the easier and faster to get going, though that's without the superior flexibility of OpenVPN. Perspective: generally fedora is, of the more mainstream distributions, The Thing if you want the very latest linux kernels and versions of everything, while mint is at the other end of the spectrum: oriented towards a rock-solid and predictable, zero-hassle experience by sticking with security-updated versions of otherwise slightly older kernels. It's an Ubuntu derivative, so updates can be done with apt in addition to the GUI updater.

We released a new experimental version, mainly to fix some failure related to network adapter not related to OpenVPN/WireGuard.Other issues still under investigation. Version 2.22.1 (Thu, 15 Sep 2022 12:54:46 +0000) [change] [all] OpenVPN 2.5.7 [change] [Windows] Fix detection/conflict with some unusable VPN network interfaces

For your comfort and peace of mind, check with traceroute (tracert in Windows) or mtr, and/or access various end points which tell you the IP address your packets come from. Typical speed tests sites and "what is my address" web services are perfect. Compare the IP address you get with the supposed exit-IP address of the VPN server you're connected to and verify they match. Finally, query the IANA database (with whois) for a final cross-check. Repeat multiple times for each server to minimize the likelihood that you end up to services which are accomplices of the attackers and therefore mask your IP address making you believe that you have a perfectly fine IP address while in reality your packet has come out from inside the evil Russian network. As a welcome and smart side-effect, while the attackers could do nothing with the data in transit inside their nodes because of end-to-end encryption, a re-routing of such a kind which would add an additional exit node would turn infringement notices against us exactly to zero, and alas this is not what we observe, not at all 🙄. We have never met such kind and gentle attackers, unfortunately. Kind regards 😋

Examples posted in this topic are not "perfect". In the end what is? Content was added in due-time and as "things" developed/progressed at AirVPN. You do NOT have to use the Comodo configs illustrated here. Please use Eddie app or create your own crafted config for Comodo. In my opinion I thought this would help at least the members of AirVPN that still use Windows OS platform(s). Thanks to all that contributed! So long, Flx

@Staff suggestion---->>>change from UDP to TCP protocol.