I am so close to getting my family to switch to Linux. A replacement for one drive, preferably a Proton one, is the last thing to tip the scales
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This is very recent:
We’re continuing work on the Drive SDK. You can expect further performance upgrades that will roll out across all our apps simultaneously. This new SDK will also be the foundation for our eagerly anticipated Linux app. It will give us the building blocks to improve compatibility, drive faster innovation, and expand Proton Drive to more platforms.
They way Andy explained it in an interview with Techlore (I think?) was that the large array of different file systems across the distro’s makes it a difficult task. He said it in such a way that I felt he was basically saying to their time is better spent elsewhere, so it’s probably smart to write it off. But hey, the browser interface is solid on FF, so at least there’s that lol
Linux has been treated as a second class citizen by Proton with pretty much all their products. Just look at the state of the ProtonVPN client compared to Windows. They are simply allocating less resources to Linux development in general compared to other platforms.
FWIW, the Mac client lacks features found on Windows, but not as severely.
I kind of understand it though. Their official client is gtk based, there are distros that use qt, other distros don’t use anything at all and instead the user build it. I ended up using wireguard/openvpn directly and just downloading proton config files and it worked greatly.
If they just provide a good server infrastructure and a reasonable app that works well on famous distros e.g Ubuntu, Fedora, it’s enough
I don’t think that should really be an issue. Isn’t that exactly what FUSE is for? Providing a standardised way of interacting with a filesystem?
Majority is using different OS, that is the fact, so do not blame them to prioritize other OS in many cases.
I do blame them because they actively choose to launch different products nobody asked for (e.g a Bitcoin wallet) instead of focusing on feature parity. I pay the exact same amount of money as a Windows user but I get less. Proton is a privacy focused company so naturaly the number of their customers running Linux is gonna be much greater than the average software company.
Don’t forget the ai chat not garbage too. So much wasted effort
There is a linux onedrive client (not official). There’s a CLI one as wall as a seperately developed GUI that sits on top.
I have been watching for any news of a Proton Drive Linux client . Even though I gave up on it and self-hosted Nextcloud instead, I’m still curious how long it takes.
I only ever see news of improvements to the Linux VPN client, as far as I’m aware a Drive client is not even in development.
Edit: keep reading down for more info
Actually it’s on their roadmap on the official website. They’re working on it.
I’ll be shocked if it’s functional within 3 years.
Thanks I seem to have missed that mention, however, I don’t think it implies a linux client is actually in development.
The October Update says they are improving the SDK in anticipation of the Linux app, much like your July one says.
It would be interesting to know a more concrete date, even if only what quarter they are targeting (or hell, I’d settle for whether they expect it to release next year or not).
Yes, I would definitely appreciate something more concrete. Hopefully that will come soon.
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Don’t mean to keep shilling for them, and I’m not on their payroll, but https://filen.io/
You can use Rclone with automated syncs with local file system and proton.
Can even use Rclone to do the initial move/migration of all their files across to Proton.
Rclone can access proton drive. Last time I tried this about half a year ago it worked so slow and shaky I gave up on it.
It’s possible that they’ve improved it in that time. At least my experience hasn’t been bad but I was doing a once off migration, not continual syncs.
Their Proton Drive integration is still in beta though.
