I think this happened to me too. Seems like it’s me forgetting to turn on mullvad but once or twice it may have been this.

Is the folder shared on your windows machine? I like to type in smb:\IP\shared folder

Any Linux distro Edit: guys, chill, when I posted this comment, op was very vague he just said “what Linux can replace macOS” he wasn’t specific. He has adjusted his post but I didn’t see this until just now and I’m downvoted. I totally get it though lol my b