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by sauercrowd 156 days ago
People are not full time maintainers of their infra though, that's very different to companies.

In many cases they want something that works, not something that requires a complex setup that needs to be well researched and understood.

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Wireguard is _really_ simple in that sense though. If you're not doing anything complicated it's very easy to set up & maintain, and basically just works.

You can also buy quite a few routers now that have it built in, so you literally just tick a checkbox, then scan a QR code/copy a file to each client device, done.

This may come with its own limitations, though.

My ISP-provided router (Free, in France) has WG built-in. But other than performance being abysmal, its main pain point is not supporting subnet routing.

So if all you want is to connect your phone / laptop while away to the local home network, it's fine. If you want to run a tunnel between two locations with multiple IPs on the remote side, you're SoL.