100% they need to get these into distro stores, probably as a flatpak. If they want users to use them, an "unofficial" is an effing joke. There has to be an easy upgrade path (not a notification, click a link go to website, download, right click install from software tool, restart app) or people are going to hate it.
Mail, VPN, Drive (seriously aggravating) at a bare minimum. I won't recommend them to new Linux users otherwise.

On top of that, add a proton Drive app to linux!

An official flatpak version would make it available for every linux distro without much effort. Third parties have shown that it is quite easily possible, however these third parties cannot be trusted.

I just tried to install ProtonVPN on Fedora Kinoite. It's an image based ("immutable") distro and with KDE Plasma, so my hopes weren't too high. I did not want to use flatpak because it wasn't a Proton verified version. And I didn't want to "layer" because I want to keep my OS tidy. So I tried to install on Distroshelf and it installed as it should but after that ProtonVPN just doesn't lauch. Meanwhile I've heard that people are using the unofficial flatpak from Flathub and it works great. But I can't give up on this. So please, Proton, release your apps in Flathub or please please provide us a way to install your apps on image-based distros some other way. Publish a new guide or something?

Official VERIFIED Flatpaks should happen ASAP for Proton Pass and Proton Authenticator.

The average user who has just switched to a Linux desktop is going to rely entirely on his distribution's app centre to find and install software, not start manually updating DEB or RPM packages.

These products are NOT going to be able to compete for his attention as standalone apps unless they are one-click installs and update automatically. Flatpak provides both of those things on a wide variety of distributions.

Right now the UNVERIFIED warnings for Proton Pass on Flathub (for example) instill avoidance rather than confidence in something as sensitive as a password manager.

As a Fedora Silverblue user, I have to layer all the Proton RPMs. If Proton is serious about including Linux users, it should support a universal packaging format like Flatpak. I noted that Tuta maintain their own Flatpak (although, annoyingly, haven't verified it yet).

Proton provide a sub-par VPN app, and still no drive. Show Linux users a little more love, please. Proton Mail, Proton Pass, Proton Auth could easily be flatpakable.

WE WANT THIS NOOOW

This should be done ASAP. An unofficial version is not enough, if you talk about privacy and security. I'm surprised, they still don't support a universal packaging format.

Please consider implementing this. It's pretty quick and simple as far as I understand.

2 years passed. No reaction from devs.
Of course. Why not. Security and privacy company focuses to develop apps from Microsoft ****. Money.

Others my disagree, but as far as I'm concerned, once Proton provides "official" flatplak support, Proton can begin the process of deprecating support for deb and rpm packages.

I'll add that, being an Ubuntu user on some (but not all) of my Linux setups, having "official" snap support would also be nice, but having "official" flatplak support is *much* more important to me.

To have official flatpaks will really knock it out of the park. Most distros can use it and it will go a long way to make Proton work on Linux. I get that you might now fully see how man Linux users you have, but maybe also considering that it becomes a viable option for new customers once it is available.

Official Flatpak/Flathub packages would be a great way to support most Linux users.

As with Flatpak, official Snap packages would be nice too.

I do not feel safe using the unofficial ones offered, and I'd prefer if you could add some official ones, and ask the (probably well-meaning) publishers to take the unofficial ones down.

Critically needed.

An *unofficial* flatpak is available: https://flathub.org/apps/com.protonvpn.www

But I'd much prefer an *official* flatpak.

Also, I'll just note that Surfshark offers *official* flatpak and *official* snap packages. But I'd prefer to support Proton.

At this point I become increasingly frustrated that this issue has not been adressed yet.

Much smaller projects manage to maintain the whole variety of Linux universal apps (Flatpak, Snap, AppImage). Unofficial packages provided by some community members show that it is easily possible; due to software supply chain security risks official apps would be much more appreciated.
From Proton's perspective it may impose a risk being falsely afiliated which some unknown party who maintains these inofficial packages.

Some apps can be used as browser app, but especially for Proton Drive proper desktop integration is needed.

While frustrated about it, personally I find my way around it. People in my Family account, people I have recommended Proton to and some Business contacts I have can not.

I know/ maintain Linux PCs for a lot of "Noobs" who would require a more seamless integration, because they would start to bother me, if I would recommend it to them and the experience would be bad or unstable. Besides Flatpaks I would also argue for Snap packages as Ubuntu is still a valid choice for "Noobs" as well as Businesses.

Adding another voice in favor of this. There is a wide ecosystem of Linux distributions that are not downstream of Redhat or Debian, and an official flatpak release is an easy way of providing Proton apps to a large number of them.

Please do this

Please do this.