+1. Made the switch when mullvad lost port forwarding. Works quite well with Gluetun

-Sy is recommended against. -S or -Syu, but not -Sy

That was indeed the case. I suppose the comment didn’t contribute much.

Just tired of seeing perfectly solid comments being downvoted with no reason provided 🤷

Downvote without explanation. Nice!

TBF, that’s pretty much how mystical it is: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-clear-ram-memory-cache-buffer-and-swap-space-on-linux/