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?

It's currently inconvenient and inefficient to manually fire up proton drive in a web browser to transfer files on a linux box.
Keep up the good work.

Ideally, it should be available as Linux universal app (Flatpak, Snap, AppImage) in order to cater as many distributions as possible.

I'm pretty upset this is not available for a service this price. Please prioritize a solution to allow Linux desktop backups

Can you please develop an app for linux desktop too? It's shameful that you offer a desktop app for propriertary OS and not for linux, since you're embrancing open source

Disappointing..

To use Proton Drive effectively syncing is essential. Therefore a desktop is needed, apparently. But hey, who is still using Windows and Mac when thinking security. So, please develop a Proton Drive desktop app for Linux machines (preferably deb version)

Started planning my migration to Linux a few days ago and I'm STUNNED there is no Linux app for Proton Drive. Please consider releasing one. Thanks.

Please, provide an official package for Arch Linux.

Fedora user here. I noticed that I can drag n drop files from the Files app to my browser when logged into Drive. I don't even miss the Drive app after switching to Linux.

Proton still needs to get their act together but this might make using Drive a little easier to use.

I noticed a couple of days ago that I can have Drive loaded in my browser and drag files to the drive from my Files manager. I've only been on Linux for less than 2 weeks and I don't even miss the app.

As I wanna switch away from google workspace and windows I checked again proton. And I saw that proton doesnt provide a client for Linux, and I saw over 8000 would like to have a drive client for Linux..
especially now windows 10 is not longer supported. There are thousand people who dont wanna buy a new computer.

Would be great if there is a drive client for Linux...and even perfect would work with libreoffice. This would be a great changemaker in business..

Per noi che usiamo linux sia a casa che al lavoro sarebbe veramente molto utile.