Linux Client
Proton Drive really needs the ability to sync desktop files automatically. This post focuses on a Linux client for Proton Drive.
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Martin Frauenstein
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Please the sooner the better Please
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Sérgio Ricardo
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Yes, necessary
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Sérgio Ricardo
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Yes
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Olivier D'Ancona commented
Arch, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Opens use, RedHat, we all wait for you !
It worth mentioning there are duplicated issues, thus giving more traction to this one !
ATM I need to use Rclone to sync my protondrive but this is really temporary as I don't want to sync my files in CLI everytime.
Just makes the life of the user that supports privacy easier ! We share the same philosophy as Proton.
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Hostuu commented
I would appreciate a linux proton drive client greatly.
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Francisco
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For people like me, using Linux, beeing able to synchonize some folder on Linux and Proton Drive would be very useful.
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spyspirit
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Absolutely needed. I am switching to Proton, ditching Microsoft and Google completely, I need a way to easily backup Linux and to automatically backup using TrueNAS cloud backups.
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Bob J
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Particularly in the US right now.
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Juan
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How is it possible for a company whose business model is based on privacy and data security to make such a stupid show of contempt for the community that cares most about privacy? It is a real shot in the foot for the future of this company. Linux users are undoubtedly the most concerned about privacy and the most enthusiastic defenders of the goodness of those principles. What makes a company that wants to be truly competitive disregard such an important resource? I don't understand it.
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Oséias Cláudio Pereira dos Reis Praia commented
Proton Drive vai ser ainda melhor com um cliente Linux. É unir uma ferramenta útil com um sistema que um dos focos é privacidade. Isso tornaria as coisas muito mais seguras.
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Josh
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I can only second what everyone here says. If there were a Linux client for Proton Drive, I would completely switch to the Proton ecosystem. I can't grasp why a privacy and open-source-minded company doesn't support Linux for all their products.
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Bob J
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What Farran said. Perfectly stated.
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Farran
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Hi there :) I really very much need a Linux client. Your ecosystem is excellent, but Linux support is an absolute must, and I really don't want to be paying extra money to a third party simply to get my files syncing on Linux. This is somewhat ridiculous. It is ceretainly worth considering that Linux users, as users of F/OSS, are often some of the most vocal proponents of privacy-supporting software and companies. So despite the apparently-small userbase, you are missing out on an important and noisy market sector! Additionally, if you don't provide Linux support in your sync client, then your users will be forced to not use Linux in their daily lives, and therefore your stats will rarely show you that they would be, in fact, Linux users, if they had the opportunity. A very literal selection bias!
In this current global political and big-tech-behemoth climate, there are millions of regular folk stepping onto the path to de-Google and de-corporate themselves. People are moving away from google-etc, and looking for privacy-centric solutions, open source solutions, decentralised, etc etc. You know this already. Well a lot of people are checking out Linux these days, and also a lot of die-hard gamers are transitioning to SteamOS, and some of these people will be Proton users too (haha actually SteamOS uses the other Proton for gaming compatility 😂). And, imagine if you could support the ChromeBook users who are branching out and de-Googling themselves! Wouldn't that be something.
To stage a real coup, it is VITAL that you support Linux. And we NEED this coup to dethrone the giant behemoth technocratic corporations who are currently basically controlling the world. This is no hyperbole.
Thank you for your time and your service to humanity. 🙏🙏🙏
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Joerg Kalkbrenner
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Hello. I have a paid account with Proton since a few days and am intending to move away from Dropbox. My primary computer is running Linux. I used Dropbox to back up files but also to share folders with family and friends. I cannot understand why Proton is not offering a true bi-directional sync solution for Linux. Proton says that it is committed to freedom , opensource and security. These values are also one the main reasons why people use Linux so it seems to me self-evident that Proton should support the Linux community.
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Joseph Melancon
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I use Linux on my laptop and server. A client, CLI or GUI, would be of great benefit so I can properly utilize the cloud storage that comes with my plan.
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Y. van Reekum
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It's a must have!
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protonmail.uservoice
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Please, Linux client is needed....Look what insync did.
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Pietro Giglio commented
Ehi, Proton!
Are you awake?
What's wrong with a Linux client?
I don't want to use Windows, this is an important feature!!! -
Lebas Bruno
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I've been using Proton for several years with a paid subscription. Unfortunately I don't trust my data with Windows and Apple, so I use Linux to protect myself! It's a big mistake because users like me pay for features that don't exist for Linux! I therefore benefit from useless gigabytes, because a drive without applications and synchronisation is perfectly useless, except for pasting files on it for backup purposes only.
I'm using Owncloud with another host, which is very good for synchronisation but not encrypted, but I'm actually paying for two solutions when I could be putting everything on Proton.
I don't know how many years we'll have to wait, but I think that the Proton community using Linux should come forward, otherwise we'll be left out in the cold for a while yet.
Sincerely Bruno -
Joop
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I have been a long-time fan and paying custumor of the Proton initiative and I understand that choices have to be made in development, but I don't understand that the Linux community is being completely ignored here. Proton Drive is useless if it can only be used through a browser.