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risho04/03/20252 repliesview on HN

arent most of the the tailscale clients open source aside from the gui portion of the non open source os's?


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pilif04/03/2025

Yes they are, unless you're using a mainstream OS and/or want to use a GUI, which is probably the most common use case.

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notpushkin04/03/2025

I think the whole Windows client is closed. On macOS though you can use it from the command line just fine (apart from a couple quirks due to a completely different VPN implementation [1]).

[1]: they have three: https://tailscale.com/kb/1065/macos-variants

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