(Linux) Update from repository resets user's settings about desktop-app HOT 4 CLOSED

I can confirm this bug - I rebuilt IVPN with the 3.8.20 release on my arm64 SoC machine running Ubuntu 22.04, installed the built binaries, and when I started up the GUI I noticed that I had to re-enter my IVPN ID. When I did that, I noticed that my multi-hop settings (entry server, exit server) were actually preserved from before (and I've set them to non-default values), but when I enabled the VPN I promptly lost my VNC and SSH connections to my machine because my local network allow permissions had also been reset 😢

I have no idea how/why it preserved my multihop server settings when everything else had gotten reset, but one way to mitigate this problem is to save the user's IVPN settings (suitably encrypted using a symmetric cipher) in the user's home directory, perhaps at ~/.ivpn/ which would allow for per-user settings.

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@gorkapernas v3.8.30

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Verified on the latest beta 3.8.38, on multiple Linux distributions supporting .deb and .rpm packages, all settings are now kept after updating the IVPN version.
Note: This fix only works from the newest version onward, it still does not work if updating from 3.8.20 to the newest one.

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v3.9.0

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