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It’s all I care about, unfortunately.
I want Proton to succeed simply on an ideological basis, but myself and a lot of other people are being severely hampered by this lack of functionality on the Linux desktop, which is ironic given that this is where the privacy-centric user base lives. As a customer of both Proton Unlimited and Proton Business, I don’t feel taken care of, and almost all the alternatives have some functional, easy to use drive sync functionality on Linux, on top of letting me use the cloud calendar locally.
I’m slowly migrating away from Proton Business use towards hosted mail + NextCloud as it did not meet my needs at all for a 90% Linux desktop use case, but I hope to revisit it in the future.
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Use a passphrase. Easy for a human to remember, hard for a machine to crack.
The difference is a passphrase is a bunch of random words stringed together so you get a longer passcode, versus a shorter string of random characters, which is a password.
Obviously the best is long passwords, but that’s only if you have a password manager.
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To encourage people to migrate, it’s par for the course.
They don’t communicate anything back to Google, they just import from it, set up mail forward and suggest that you can set up the accounts you’re familiar with with your proton email (which you can do with any email account, without Google having any access to your emails). You’re reading way too much into this.
If you’re that paranoid, don’t trust any private company with your information and run your own private mail server.
I’m tempted to move away from Proton tbh, I don’t get enough value as a Linux user to justify the price. Might keep SimpleLogin though.