Setup

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How to Set Up a Proxy on Alpine Linux

How to make Alpine Linux use a proxy for apk, the terminal, doas and docker build, read from Alpine's own code: why apk needs HTTPS_PROXY, and why it ignores SOCKS5.

October 4, 2026 · 9 min read

How to Set Up a Proxy on openSUSE

openSUSE keeps its proxy in one file. How to fill /etc/sysconfig/proxy so logins, services and zypper all use it, on Tumbleweed, Leap 15 and Leap 16 without YaST.

October 4, 2026 · 7 min read

How to Set Up a Proxy on Pop!_OS

Pop!_OS 24.04's COSMIC desktop has no proxy screen. How to set a proxy that Chrome, Firefox, apt and the terminal all use, read from the code of each.

October 4, 2026 · 8 min read

How to Set Up a Proxy on a Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi OS has a proxy menu in raspi-config. What it really writes, how to use it over SSH, the password trap, sudo, Chromium on the desktop and Raspberry Pi Imager behind a proxy.

October 4, 2026 · 10 min read

How to Set Up a Proxy on a Samsung Galaxy

Where One UI keeps the proxy on a Samsung Galaxy phone or tablet, from Samsung's own documents: Wi-Fi under View more, mobile data in the APN, and where a proxy login can go.

October 4, 2026 · 8 min read

How to Set Up a Proxy on Arch Linux and Manjaro

pacman has no proxy setting of its own. Which variable it does read, how to keep it through sudo, and what Manjaro's Pamac and MSYS2 on Windows change.

October 3, 2026 · 11 min read

How to Set Up a Proxy on CentOS, RHEL, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux

CentOS, RHEL, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux keep a proxy in six places. Every step for yum, dnf, subscription-manager and sudo, checked against each tool's own code.

October 3, 2026 · 20 min read

How to Set Up a Proxy on Fedora

Fedora keeps a proxy in five places. Every step for GNOME, the terminal, dnf and sudo, run on Fedora 44 with a proxy that logs each request.

October 3, 2026 · 15 min read

How to Set Up a Proxy on Linux Mint

Linux Mint's proxy setting reaches Firefox, not the terminal or Update Manager. Every place to set it on Mint 22.3, checked against Mint's own code.

October 3, 2026 · 14 min read

How to Set Up a Proxy on Debian

Debian keeps a proxy in five places that do not share it. Every step for GNOME, the terminal, apt and sudo, run on Debian 13 with a proxy that logs each request.

October 2, 2026 · 20 min read

Proxy Server Software: The Free Programs, Their Defaults, and the Catch

Proxy server software turns a computer into a proxy. The free programs for Windows and Linux, their default ports, and why a server of your own adds no new IP.

September 27, 2026 · 8 min read

SSH SOCKS Proxy: Turn Any SSH Login Into a SOCKS5 Proxy with ssh -D

One command turns a server you can SSH into into a SOCKS5 proxy. Windows and PuTTY steps, DNS through the tunnel, and the limits we measured in a real test.

September 27, 2026 · 8 min read

Socks5 Configurator: How It Works, How to Set It Up, and Its Limits

Socks5 Configurator sends Chrome through one SOCKS5 proxy. How to fill in its fields, which sites its default list skips, and why no login can work.

September 26, 2026 · 8 min read

How to Set Up a Proxy on a Chromebook

The proxy on a Chromebook belongs to one network, not to the device. Where the setting hides, which traffic it covers, and what a school Chromebook does with it.

September 16, 2026 · 5 min read

How to Set Up a Proxy on Kali Linux

On Kali a proxy usually means one command through one proxy. The proxychains file it really reads, the chain modes, the apt setting, and a measured check.

September 16, 2026 · 5 min read

How to Set Up a Proxy on Ubuntu

Four places hold a proxy on Ubuntu. Which one reaches your program, the exact commands for each, and the check that proves it. Measured on Ubuntu 24.04.

September 16, 2026 · 6 min read

How to Set Up a Proxy on Windows 10

Windows 10 holds two proxies: the one in Settings for your account, and the machine-wide one that Windows Update and services read. Set the right one, and prove it.

September 16, 2026 · 6 min read

Proxy einrichten: Windows, Chrome, Firefox, Android

Proxy einrichten Schritt für Schritt: in Windows, Chrome, Firefox und Android, mit und ohne Passwort. Wo du IP, Port und Zugangsdaten einträgst und wie du prüfst, dass es läuft.

August 28, 2026 · 15 min read

Setting Up Proxies in Antidetect Browsers

One proxy per profile, and why a rotating IP quietly ruins the thing you bought the browser for. Setup for AdsPower, Dolphin Anty, GoLogin and Multilogin, plus the mistakes that get profiles flagged.

August 8, 2026 · 6 min read

How to Use a Proxy with Discord

Discord has no proxy setting anywhere in its interface. The three ways to route it anyway, and the reason voice chat stops working the moment you succeed.

August 8, 2026 · 4 min read

When Your Proxy Needs a Password and Your Software Can't Send One

Windows has no proxy password field, Chrome ignores a login written into its flag, and some apps only take proxies without one. Four fixes that work, from an address allowlist to a relay on 127.0.0.1.

August 8, 2026 · 8 min read

IP, Port, Username, Password: What Your Proxy Line Actually Means

Someone handed you 198.51.100.7:8080:hp_ir4k2:9fa2c1 and no instructions. The four parts, the three ways the same proxy is written, which shape each tool wants, and the password characters that break it.

August 8, 2026 · 13 min read

How to Set Up a Proxy on Linux

Proxy on Linux: the export line, the permanent files, why sudo apt ignores it, the apt, git, pip and curl settings, and the proof. Ubuntu 24.04, measured.

August 8, 2026 · 18 min read

How to Set Up a Proxy in qBittorrent

The setting most guides skip is the one that matters: an HTTP proxy in qBittorrent covers the tracker and not your peer connections. Where the boxes are, which to tick, and how to check it actually applied.

August 8, 2026 · 4 min read

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