I added this idea in my own wall of idea. but here is my idea. and more ideal way to better support the Proton Drive.

https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932839-proton-drive/suggestions/51397144-protonmail-bridge-proton-drive

With the protonmail bridge - aka ProtonDrive Bridge, would it make sense to connect to our Proton Drive. I see it as a way to bridge into our Proton Drive to easily access our files from our favorite file explorer rather using the web browser.
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Also it would be easier for us to choose our favorite linux file explorer for us to easily connect to our personal proton drive, with our favorite linux file explorer its just adding the remote protocols and using protons recommended secure e2e encryption like adding the imap/smtp protocols to our favorite email client from the protonmail bridge. so it would be the same Princible that applies as adding sftp, ssh, webdev. protocols. so i see no problems with that! what you guys think about that idea?

It looks like this is finally coming (https://itsfoss.com/news/proton-drive-encryption-upgrades/). While this is excellent news, the comms around this have been terrible (at least in this thread - I assume Proton devs read these threads).

In their 2025 Winter Roadmap, they teased us with a Linux release. And when I finally decided to switch, they stopped mentioning about it altogether. Their Facebook's admin doesn't reply to comments mentioning Linux. It's like they're told to be quiet about it.

Imagine being a paying customer to a company that avoid addressing their customers, as soon as my subscription ends, I'll switch to Tuta and Mega. What a disappointment!

https://proton.me/blog/proton-2025-autumn-roadmaps

Flatpaks for all!!

Having this is fundamental for me to start paying for Drive and quit OneDrive, but I can't do it until you have a Linux client.

Please, when we want to not depend on Big Tech America we need this Linux functionality

Could you please implement this ASAP? And not only rsync, but all ways to use Proton drive from Linux CLI.

And if you are working on it, please let us know. Keep your (paying) customers uptodate with what's happening.

When will the Proton Drive Linux desktop application be released? We pay the same fee as macOS and Windows users, but we don't have the right to use it. This is discrimination.

I would appreciate having it on my Linux device. Otherwise, I'll have to use another cloud service

I have a full subscription but If Tuta Drive comes first, I will switch.

(this topic is 2.5 year old already!)

For me, a native application would offer:
Better integration with the Linux file system (e.g., seamless syncing, offline access).
Improved performance and resource management compared to browser-based solutions.
Alignment with Proton's strong presence in the open-source and Linux community. Many privacy-conscious users rely on Linux as their primary OS, and a native client would make Proton Drive a viable competitor to other cloud storage solutions in this ecosystem.

Linux+Proton is a good way to get rid of both Microsoft and Google, mainly for privacy and data security purpose.
I'm trying to migrate my whole company under Proton, but the absence of ProtonDrive CLI for Ubuntu makes everything pretty difficult.
I'm not the only one expecting Linux CLI. Can we at least have a date? 5 weeks or 5 years?

Due to Microsoft's current update policy regarding the use of cloud services and the extremely difficult workarounds for these services, I believe a native Linux Drive app is urgently needed.

Dear Proton Team, please provide us with such an app as soon as possible so that we can finally switch from Windows to Linux.

Thank you.

The most privacy conscious customers of yours (myself included) use Linux. Please give us a native app that can sync folders. Distribute it in a distro agnostic form since we don’t all use gnome or ubuntu.

I am also a long-time paying customer of Proton. And as mentioned many times below, seeing the original demand with more than 6k votes being deleted makes me seriously reconsider a switch to another provider.

I can definitely understand that developing such a client isn't an easy job. but it has been years simce the original request was made... and such behaviour gives the impression that this forum is used more as a tool to justify the current roadmap than as a way to take user concerns seriously.

I would be happy to be proved wrong, but I don't see any public commitment in the last Proton Drive update: https://proton.me/blog/drive-2026-q1-recap

Otherwise, seems like kDrive from Infomaniak could be a nice alternative: https://www.infomaniak.com/en/ksuite/kdrive

Please offer something that can service mainstream distros besides Ubuntu GNOME, and please don't offer it exclusively via Snap. Flatpaks, App Images, etc, anything in addition to snaps

This is critical, and I suspect a lot of people interested in privacy, are also Linux users! I appreciate Proton, but please focus on your existing products, rather than constantly launching new ones. The lack of this is pushing me towards other cloud storage providers.

This is one of the most important features for me in Proton Drive. I have been using a different storage company that offers a Drive feature for Linux.

It is truly disappointing that bringing a core product to a key demographic of your organization is seemingly so low on the priority list, please fix this. I love what you all are doing overall, but this is beyond frustrating to paying customers.

I just want to add my voice to the rest of the people who are frustrated with the lack of a linux client. I echo the complaints and disappointment of Proton's hippocratic actions of touting privacy but not supporting linux. I like others am now forced to consider other services.