For making unencrypted backups on external harddisks you need locally synchronized data. With the end auf Windows 10 lots of PCs will shift to Linux.

As I was looking for a Dropbox replacement and Proton doesn't deliver for Linux yet, I've stumbled over Koofr.eu. Maybe this is of help for some other Linux-users.

Yes please. proton cannot keep singing about the importance of privacy while expecting its users to run proton apps on a OS like windows

Please, when this feature will be considered... ? I'm using Proton Drive for my company and I use RcloneView with experimental feature in order to sync protondrive files, but it's really a pain and I'm not sure about privacy with this tool.

We really need a linux client and proton is already not cheap when it comes to storage, which makes it even worse that there is no linux app to use the full potential of the subscription.
Additionally, the Windows 10 end of life is coming closer and hence many people including my family want to move devices to linux to reduce waste, but then it is not possible to use ProtonDrive

As the end of Windows 10 is coming closer, and many not that old cpu's are not supported, many people including me and my family will move the devices to linux and hence reduce waste. It is a shame that the usage of Proton Drive is then no longer possible

Vote 4000! Like many others, this is a critically missing feature. Being a father of 3 teens, I have been teaching them the importance of privacy and vigilance against government overreach. Proton has everything needed to accomplish this except for not having a viable drive solution for Linux. I beg the product management team to reconsider their development priorities.

Thank you

I've just migrated from Mac to Linux, so looking for a replacement for my old "Time Capsule" automated backup process. "Oh that's fine," I thought. "I've got Proton Drive - they're bound to have an app, or if all else fails I can use cron to automate something. It'll be fun!"

And then I discovered Proton Drive has no Linux capacity whatsoever.

What?
How?
Why???

Second most upvoted feature for proton drive, how is this not already in the pipeline?

This is a major feature, it must not be down-prioritized. Time to show that you care about privacy by making a client for a privacy oriented OS.

A must requirement.

Looks like I'll have to refund my Proton Unlimited subscription

The main uses of any cloud storage for me are: file sharing (rarely), backups, and syncing files between devices. The last two require a client that is capable of interacting with the filesystem so a browser app is insufficient. This, and the VPN are the only two Proton offerings that need a client app to function correctly (at least a CLI client). I am surprised that the mail and calendar apps are being prioritized since they appear to give no improvements to having a pinned browser tab.

What happened, Proton? 😢
What are we for you anymore?

Oh, I'm afraid that Proton became a too large company to care about us, its users, anymore :(

This has gotten critical for us. Please provide at least an official cli client

I'm considering/researching moving to linux in light of some up-coming windows changes.

Part of that research is to determine which apps I can use on linux that I rely on. Proton (Mail/Drive/VPN/Pass/etc) are some of those apps.

Not having a linux Drive is a real issue. Get it sorted, Proton!

Please

Wow—nearly 4,000 votes and still nothing from Proton’s devs? Do they even care about what users think? This is seriously disappointing, and I honestly regret ever using Proton Drive.

Anant Vijay Singh is Product Team Lead for Proton Drive leading Product development for Proton Drive.

On LinkedIn he recently posted about his product journey and recommended a course in "Improving Your Product Sense" to learn how to increase your odds of product success (and career success) by building the skill of making more correct product decisions: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anant-vijay-singh_early-in-my-product-journey-i-did-the-usual-activity-7320446981468815360-30uS/

This is my comment on that post:

I think part of of making more correct product decisions (which Shreyas Doshi course is all about) would be to listening to the community around the Product. Proton as a whole seems to do that and let decisions of the development of the products be influenced by the community. It feels like Proton's success is built on that approach.

However, for Proton Drive product, there seem to be a growing mistrust in the community and a large part of the community do not feel that they are heard.

On UserVoice (the main platform for the community to give suggestions for Proton Product features) it's very clear that, for the community, a Linux Client for Drive is top priority of the things NOT marked as "STARTED".

The "Linux Client" suggestion has in the writing moment (may 10:th 2025) 3981 votes and is by that way above the next not yet started suggestions ("Photo Albums, tagging, location search") which currently only has 1383 votes.

The "Linux Client" suggestion was originally shared on UserVoice Jun 8, 2022, which would be around 3-4 months after you started as Group Product Manager for Proton Drive so I guess there has been plenty of time the last 3 years to pick that idea up.

Reading through your "Proton Drive roadmap for spring 2025" (https://proton.me/blog/drive-roadmap-spring-2025 ), there is nowhere any mentioning of Linux ... not under "What’s coming this spring" ... nor in the "Sneak peek at our plans beyond spring".

What's kind of funny, and sad at the same time, is the following "Built together with the Proton community" section on the same page. It states:

"Proton is open source and community powered — every feature on this roadmap started with you. Your feedback helps us prioritize what features to add next, so share your feedback on Reddit, UserVoice, or X."

So why not live by your statement, "Your feedback helps us prioritize what features to add next", and actually get the development of a Linux Client for drive going?