Really I don’t know why Ubuntu remains so frequently recommended, or any of it’s derivatives like Mint. Everything that distinguished Ubuntu in it’s early years to make it more desirable for personal computers has long since found it’s way back to the mothership. Who is still using this thing?
There are effectively zero commercial VPN services that will permit P2P traffic on their free servers, because they would be instantly swamped if they did. The few that do permit it for free, you have to ask yourself how they’re paying for that bandwidth.