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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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Just 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 woul…

Consider paying for S3.

S3 is not a filesystem replacement unfortunately.

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

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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 don't know how many M$/yr Google engineers cost, but there is at least one small software company out there (InSync) that built a multiplatform Google Drive client which, personally, has been working great for years, even on Linux (I'm just a user), for likely less than that.

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

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I 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.

Does this mean you're storing a backup of your NextCloud as a large encrypted blob in your gdrive?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because one would presume that a company building online file storage as a product would want it to work?

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> There's a difference between "I wish this product had feature X" and "I'm upset because I'm owed feature X for reason Y."

Then you probably shouldn't have added the owed part.

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

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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 team who made the post were representing Google, therefor the company made the post.

To propose otherwise implies that all similar actions/statements made in a similar way are not made by the company, which is both ludicrous and also causes Google to not exist.

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

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Wait, doesn’t this work? I had a weird experience where pop_OS! automatically mapped my google drive to nautilus once I had logged in.

I’m sure that it’s not native, but what features would I be missing? I was very pleasantly surprised when it just kinda worked.

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