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Very cool but Proton Drive for Linux when?
I feel like their goal is more close to providing a privacy-minded alternative to Google's G-suite to "regular" users, so for me it totally makes sense. But yeah, I'm also really waiting for the Linux drive app.
They don't care.
That might be it. Whatever the reason, it seems like a missed opportunity. Especially when they go out of their way to provide direct APKs to Android users who do not use Play Store.
They already had to make the APK for the Play Store, providing it directly doesn't require extra dev work.
They might have done their stats and figured out that only 0.0000001% of their users would benefit from it and there weren't much profit there to make.
Use that linux mail web app... maybe they will change their minds.
Linux crowd is hard to appease tho
Hopefully one day when we finally hit the year of Linux Desktop this changes.
Currently, gamers are on boarding. I think once critical mass joins with their buying power, things should change.
Yeah me too, but for that to happen you need to get: Adobe CC, MS Office, Autodesk and a few others the masses use as native desktop apps. The Linux Desktop year will not come until those exist... and until GNOME fixes their shit and stop thinking their users are stupid and desktop icons are useless.
GNUMPY (GIMP), Kdenlive, Audacity
Libre Office
BricsCAD, FreeCAD, etc. ->https://alternativeto.net, https://www.bricsys.com/
Also Autodesk might work on Linux since .NET was recently integrated to major distros, though I'm merely thinking .NET = .NET for AutoCAD which might not be true, or is not the whole picture^1,2,3^.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/.NET
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/autocad-on-linux/td-p/7927396 (AutoCAD requires .NET frameworks)
Those are alternatives not the 100% compatible solutions that professionals who spend 8h/day in front of those tools need.
One of the reasons for me not to switch, is because there is no Linux client.
If they had a contacts app for Android and a proton drive Linux client I would be 1,000% on board. I would switch basically everything over and be more than happy to pay for it. Useless to me otherwise
I don’t think they don’t care, they have been adding Linux versions for all of their apps (except drive of course). The CEO themselves said in an interview that a Linux client for drive is inevitable and they will make one, but one of the hardest clients to develop.
The guy who made the Backblaze software said it was already done and was easy for their standard client to work with Linux but never got rolled out because Linux users are power users. I wonder if that is the real reason when it comes to Proton. It's not unlimited but maybe there is some power user use that they anticipate and don't want to deal with.
They need Linux developers to help.
Where's the source code? Seriously, the only thing I can find for drive & calander are repos that were archived in 2021
https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/tree/main/applications
They use monorepo for the web clients, at least.
Here the mobile apps:
https://github.com/ProtonDriveApps
I started working on one but don’t have much time.
The interesting repos:
Unfortunately they don’t publish any api docs.
I'm gonna try to see if you can use a windows vm with proton drive and a shared folder with the host system. Kinda a pain, but if it works it works. What I'd really love is an api for this kind of asshattery
Rclone now works:
https://rclone.org/protondrive/
Doesn't rclone work?
It doesn't make financial sense to spend money on supporting an entire new platform that's used by <3% of the population.