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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
#22It feels like Google’s attention span, leadership longevity, and product development patience is roughly 3 years. Any product that survives longer than that probably has transcended beyond being a “pet project/toy” into a PR-problem or revenue-stream significant enough that it takes on a life of it’s own. As management turns over, that lease on life is renewed…
While this fosters new ideas and opportunities, that conversion into long-term direction and execution can be pretty rough.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#23It feels like Google’s attention span, leadership longevity, and product development patience is roughly 3 years. Any product that survives longer than that probably has transcended beyond being a “pet project/toy” into a PR-problem or revenue-stream significant enough that it takes on a life of it’s own. As management turns over, that lease on life is renewed… https://killedbygoogle.com/ While this fosters new ideas…
3 years is roughly the average time it takes to get promoted at Google.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#24If there was one, people wouldn't use it. It's so well supported by open source software like rclone and insync, I feel like it actually works better than it does on my windows machine.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#25Over ten years ago it was already obvious that Google wasn't a reliable or useful company. You're gonna be waiting a LOOOONG time.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#26Worth 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 ultimately it is an issue of priority. Google has the money, they just don't choose to spend it on supporting Google Drive on Linux, even after saying they would. So, supporting Linux is by definition a lower priority than anything that did pass the bar for resource allocation in the last ten years.
You're right about the motivations: they must not view it as creating real business value, since that's how these decisions get made.
My only point here is that it IS a choice someone in an office is making: it's not worth it to support Drive on Linux. They do know about it, because it was on their radar 10 years ago. Somebody took it off their radar.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#27I connected my Linux systems to my Nextcloud server, and then I connected my Gdrive as external storage in Nextcloud. When I turned on server side encryption in Nextcloud it also encrypted my connected storage of Gdrive. So I accomplished both Gdrive integration as well as file encryption at the same time.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#28There’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.
If something uses electron, I'll look for a native alternative.
Ripcord doesn't have the best UI and I can't open Teams calls or even links that are too long (Slack broke their API at some point) but at least it's not wasting my ram and it's responds quickly. The rare times I have to open Slack on the web I sigh and wait 2 minutes for the app to load.
I automated Prituln VPN via bash just not to have to deal with another Electron client for a damn popup on my tray bar.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#29Just give us a web filesystem already. Stop with these shitty infantilized GUIs with no hierarchical organization and an overreliance on search to find things. I have literally hundreds of thousands to millions of files on my local machines and have no trouble remembering where I put things. Drive can't seem to scale past a few dozen before it's confusing, useless, and apparently lossy. Remember when web servers would serve up the contents of a directory as a list with hyperlinks on the file names? That actually worked ffs. I cannot understand how we could be moving backwards so quickly.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#30I connected my Linux systems to my Nextcloud server, and then I connected my Gdrive as external storage in Nextcloud. When I turned on server side encryption in Nextcloud it also encrypted my connected storage of Gdrive. So I accomplished both Gdrive integration as well as file encryption at the same time.
> I connected my Gdrive as external storage in Nextcloud.
This bit sounds interesting, could you explain it a little more, how you managed it?