I’ve decided to leave Proton after being a user since 2017. Today, I migrated all my services to my new domain, marking the end of my time with Proton. The recent political noise and price point were no longer justifiable for me. It was a good experience while it lasted. Thanks for the fishes 🐟 🐠
I agree on the products thing. Bitcoin Wallet? WTF. While their staff says supporting drive sync on Linux is hard. (Yet seafile, and Google drive work on Linux)
Just a side note. Rclone is not the same as GNOME gdrive access. Rclone does a clone of the data to your local, GNOME gives you online access and you basically open from remote like using Seadrive client.
My point being Proton could easily add same online account with GNOME help and do the same.
Yes but that’s not supported by Google. If your going to ding Proton Drive for not having a natove Linux client then you shouldn’t tout Google Drive as a competitor who does, as they don’t. You’re giving Google Drive a free pass because of a third party. Google and Proton are the same on this feature and you should disparage both services equally as a result.
The official apps are all open source (GPL-3.0, https://github.com/ProtonDriveApps), so even though a formal API isn’t documented it is derivable from the 4 available clients. This is how rclone added support for Proton Drive. So there isn’t really anything stopping GNOME or KDE from supporting it.
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I agree on the products thing. Bitcoin Wallet? WTF. While their staff says supporting drive sync on Linux is hard. (Yet seafile, and Google drive work on Linux)
Google Drive doesn’t support Linux. Someone made a tool for it (RClone) which also happens to work with GDrive.
And its fine if all the tools Proton provide aren’t for you. I use all of them except the crypto wallet.
But it might be nice to have if one day i do use crypto.
Google drive works with GNOME desktop, you add your Online Account in settings, and it integrates your calendar, Email, and maps a remote GDrive
It’s a GNOME feature that’s not at all developed or supported by Google, but by another GNOME maintainer. That’s what I mean.
Just a side note. Rclone is not the same as GNOME gdrive access. Rclone does a clone of the data to your local, GNOME gives you online access and you basically open from remote like using Seadrive client.
My point being Proton could easily add same online account with GNOME help and do the same.
And KDE and xfce and cinnamon and MATE and Budgie… where does it end?
My point is that Google didn’t implement the feature. Someone else did.
It’s up to the desktop environment’s maintainers or some other developer to implement this.
But it would be nice to have if Proton provided it though, like they did with proton VPN. NGL.
Google does not support Drive on Linux.
If you add your Online Google Account to GNOME, it integrates your calendar, mail and adds a mapped Gdrive in Nautilus
Yes but that’s not supported by Google. If your going to ding Proton Drive for not having a natove Linux client then you shouldn’t tout Google Drive as a competitor who does, as they don’t. You’re giving Google Drive a free pass because of a third party. Google and Proton are the same on this feature and you should disparage both services equally as a result.
Does Proton have open API that GNOME can leverage same as GDrive?
The official apps are all open source (GPL-3.0, https://github.com/ProtonDriveApps), so even though a formal API isn’t documented it is derivable from the 4 available clients. This is how rclone added support for Proton Drive. So there isn’t really anything stopping GNOME or KDE from supporting it.
Interesting. Thanks for the info