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I had all sorts of VPN problems over the years with various Linux desktops OS. What I do instead is that I have a proxy server with just an OpenSSH daemon on port 443 -- if there's web traffic, add sslh to taste -- and then use the SOCKS v5 proxy built into OpenSSH client and then http://darkk.net.ru/redsocks/ I might be the weird case here but I found this infinitely easier to set up than any VPN.

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SSH tunnels work in a pinch (OpenSSH is <3). However for coverage across devices such as smartphones OpenVPN works better long-term.

To each their own. I am hanging in there with proxydroid.

Unfortunately even recent versions of Android have some incompatibilites with OpenVPN.

When I tried again with Lollipop last month, the VPN's preferred DNS was not being set on the phone despite being sent from the VPN server, hence DNS lookups were leaking to whatever DNS server had been set before establishing the VPN. Quite a nasty gotcha. Workaround is to run a script to set the DNS, but that requires root privs which 'normal' users won't have.

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