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.

Still no Linux Proton Drive app is making me reconsider Proton as a whole. What is the status on this? Why does it take so long while new products are being launched?!

I'd like to vouch for Drive Linux support as well. I'm trying to remove Microslop from my life and having a robust suite of services and apps is essential to do that effectively.

The lack of proton Drive for linux is the only thing which is making me consider switching to dropbox or any of the other many cloud storage providers

Normally I would ask "does anyone else find it" but in this case I bet everyone in this thread finds it annoying that the new product, proton meet, got a linux app before drive ... real slap in the face

Please please release a linux sync client. I am a paying user. It's been a very and disappointing long wait.

Proton promises to discreetly, securely and anonymously deliver your data, but you must open the package in front of Big Tech on their premises...

Proton's handling of this issue has been disheartening to say the least. Besides the irony of having a mission to be an alternative to "Big Tech" and still being tethered to them is ridiculous. Encryption means very little when an operating system like windows is accessing it, it's leaky and Microslop's mission is to hoover up your data regardless of conscious consent. They've already been found to use stored passwords to unlock and scan encrypted files in Onedrive. So when they achieve the stated goal of making windows an agentic os that sees and hears what you do there is no doubt that end to end encryption will mean nothing to the privacy and security of your data from Big Tech and one might as well just use one drive.

It's been the same since I got Proton Business for email 3 years ago. Since then half a dozen apps have showed up, still no native Drive app. Really takes the shine off of all these new developments, half of which I don't need or want (certainly don't want to pay for especially if web based) and the other half are hobbled to the brink of uselessness because of the lack of native Linux drive. It's kept me from moving clients businesses over to Proton hoping this would be addressed. 3 years plus is a long time to erode away at the trust of your customers. Coincidentally, it's also why it's been difficult to move some clients off windows (at least those tethered by 365, won't help the ones with business critical CAD or Adobe products). So, essentially Proton is supporting and perpetuating "Big Tech's" stranglehold.

Regardless, the decision to remove/delist the original Linux drive app request has really undermined my confidence in Proton, as if hiding it from Top/Hot topic or whatever wasn't disappointing enough. I've started looking for alternatives and I've stopped suggesting Proton to anyone who doesn't just need a free small email account.

If this ever does get addressed I hope it's a Flatpak implementation.

Please bring this over! or provide a process to make it work via command line etc

It would be nice if it's implemented via exposing a WebDAV bridge endpoint and register it into the system, since it will automatically enable integration with other applications in the system using the standard XDG file chooser portal (https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser.html)

rclone is not a real 100% solution to this for linux and Proton should absolutely be expected to be held responsible for providing a linux functioning version. Recent Fedora adopter and really disappointed that Proton seems to sweep this under the rug and ignore its users requests for it. Making me seriously reconsider the entire Proton platform.

Crucial feature!

How you handle this feedback forum is trust shattering.

The original suggestion had 6000+ votes. It never received any official acknowledgement in the forum but got set to "needs approval" instead (including hiding it from "top" suggestions even when it was available).

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

Yes, development is a challenge and complex. But it's also obvious that the business focus lies somewhere else and the scarce resources are spent on shipping different product features first - ignoring (or at least de-prioritizing) user feedback.

Edit: They have now deleted the 6.000+ votes post. Seriously dishonest. Whoever runs this forum should be held accountable.

I have been using Proton Mail and Proton Calendar for years. I would very much like to be able to say goodbye to google drive. This is the last hurdle for me to say good bye to google forever.

Sync app for Fedora Workstation is currently not available to automatically update Proton Drive. Proton Drive does not offer a native Linux desktop client as it does for Windows and MacOS. It will be great to have a local app for Linux systems that is able to set up auto sync to Proton Drive.

Except for the obvious part of creating a client that does not require command line or GUI interface. As long as you set it up, set up a config file similar to the FStab and put it to a Mount point that all the other interfaces can see.
All the major graphical interfaces will auto mount or show every device that is already mounted by Linux.

Windows, Android and iOS Drive clients have existed for 2 years now but these are single operating systems - unlike Linux, which encompasses multiple packages, libraries and desktop environments. I think people are forgetting that developing a general Linux client essentially means developing a client across multiple operating systems, all of which are consistently changing. So it only makes sense to get the easier developments out of the way first. I can't imagine Proton is overflowing with people to work on this one project among their entire suite. This is one of a multitude of tasks they are managing, all while maintaining high standards of encryption and privacy on top of all of that, far and above any other company. People need to understand the absolute undertaking of these logistics before making convenient criticisms.

Please avoid AppImage or Flatpak so that if dependent program has a bug or security issue found, I can update or recompile that dependency instead of having to wait for Proton to recompile the entire AppImage or FlatPack.
I'm always worried about my app images or flat packs becoming zombies and not receiving timely updates.