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10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

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Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

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Post by stefan_ »

throwaway787544 wrote: post #4

Worth noting that it's not actually "Google" that said to "hang tight". An entire brand does not make a decision like whether to support Linux. It's a two-pizza team with a shitty budget and a remit to just keep the damn thing from going down and working out all the bugs with basic features like moving a file to a new folder in a weird drop-down. I'm sure the team would like to support Linux, if they had a bigger bud…

The thinking was probably more along the lines of "no one ever got promoted for filling out the basic feature set of a file share me too service" and that promotion is what's standing between them and an extra 9000 pizzas a year worth of salary. With a bonus hint of "nobody cares what somebody promised that left the team a year ago after a year of working on it".

Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

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Post by abeppu »

throwaway787544 wrote: post #4

Worth noting that it's not actually "Google" that said to "hang tight". An entire brand does not make a decision like whether to support Linux. It's a two-pizza team with a shitty budget and a remit to just keep the damn thing from going down and working out all the bugs with basic features like moving a file to a new folder in a weird drop-down. I'm sure the team would like to support Linux, if they had a bigger bud…

I get what you're saying, but:

- The specific actions of a company will _always_ come from a specific subset of people who are interacting with and sometimes constrained by the broader organization. Should this mean that we can never talk coherently about the actions or statements of a company?

- Isn't the company overall responsible for creating the organizational constraints and obstacles? Why is that team that size? Why is that their remit, and how has it changed since _someone_ decided to say "hang tight"? Why do they have the staff they have?

Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

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Post by renewiltord »

There’s a pretty good FUSE driver and the web app is fine. Never felt the need for a Linux client for this service. Two decades of Linux use and the thing that has changed everything has been the arrival of electron which has made practically everything cross-platform.

Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

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Post by jchw »

cloudking wrote: post #8

The market size is not big enough to justify the internal costs of building and maintaining it. For dev environments, you can workaround it using Windows + Drive filestream + WSL. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2999#issuecomment-91...

When I worked at Google, almost all developer workstations were running Linux. That alone really should be plenty of justification for having such a client. They did not.
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