VPN - integrated or Tunnelblick?

I use the native OS X (El Capitan) VPN, built-in client and it works. It is L2TP, which is not serious, but Open VPN is better. My question is if Open VPN is enough better to justify moving to Tunnelblick VPN client open source. Thank you.

They are not comparable. The built-in VPN client cannot connect to an OpenVPN server at all, and cannot "Tunnelblick" connect to what anyone other than an OpenVPN server. If you're wondering if OpenVPN is in itself a better a L2TP over IPSec protocol, I have no opinion.

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