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S3 is not a filesystem replacement unfortunately.
Not a filesystem, but rclone works pretty well
rclone also works with Google drive, if that's all you're after.
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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Because it's a paid service. But explaining the emotions you've projected upon OP isn't useful discussion.
From the OP: > Just give us a web filesystem already. Stop with these shitty infantilized GUIs ... That actually worked ffs. ... I responded by saying: > Your level of angst makes me think ... I suppose I could be wrong about the OP expressing angst, but I think it's reasonable inference. Also, you wrote: > Because it's a paid service. I see two problems here: (1) I was asking the OP (@titzer) what their reasons were…
Just gonna leave this here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please don't go into how another person is feeling, just read the comment and reply. It will never go well for you if you try to dismiss somebody's comments by focusing on how they are feeling instead of their words.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#83Just 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…
I’d take a file system that can be indexed by my local operating system (MacOS).
The last MacOS update broke Spotlight indexing for my Google Drive folders. Really annoying not being able to use Spotlight (and by extension Alfred), so the only logical thing to do was move to iCloud.
In the process of moving off of Google Drive, I also decided to move my email to Fastmail and just ditch GSuite (or whatever they are calling it today) forever. I’ll sleep better at night knowing that Fastmail knows their place and (hopefully) won’t try and force a chat function into my web email client as a means to build engagement for a product I don’t care about.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
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You nailed it. Every 3 years google renames and rebadges their chat system. I don't even know what to call it anymore.
There's Google Chat, which is really made for companies but available on normal accounts too, and Google Messages, their SMS/MMS/RCS app for Android, which requires that you have an Android phone and a phone plan.
Also Hangouts, Meet, Duo, Allo, Spaces. I don't even know if all of them are alive now, and I don't care enough to check.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's Google Chat, which is really made for companies but available on normal accounts too, and Google Messages, their SMS/MMS/RCS app for Android, which requires that you have an Android phone and a phone plan.
Also Hangouts, Meet, Duo, Allo, Spaces. I don't even know if all of them are alive now, and I don't care enough to check.
I'm pretty sure there was a Google+ chat, and who remembers Google Talk?
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#86If 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.
Insync is not open source.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#87As the decision seems to be deliberate, I'm interested why Google has chosen not to implement such a feature. I'm a paying GSuite customer. I'd love to be able to NFS-mount portions of my home directory into Google Drive for access across platforms and sharing/collaboration with others. There's got to be a reason that Google Drive isn't interested in implementing linux mounts -- I'd be surprised if it is market share…
It's market share, but I suspect Google's numbers may be skewed here by their measurement system. They almost certainly have hard numbers on the percent of users accessing the UI via various platform configs, and the Linux numbers are low. Question is if that's because they haven't cracked into the market because they aren't offering desktop integration. The other interesting question is: what are Linux users using i…
My experience is that data-driven companies get into self-reinforcing circles:
- Data shows not a lot of customers use Linux
- Which leads to poor Linux support
- Which leads to not a lot of customers using Linux
That's not specific to this either. I've seen companies discount continents of people due to lack of customers on those continents, which was often due to inanely easy-to-solve problems. But if you only have 0.1% of your market in China, why bother with servers which are inside the Great Firewall? If 0.1% of your population is Spanish-speaking, why bother with i18n?
Data driven companies have an inherent bias towards /current/ customers, and away from /potential/ customers....
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#88Wait, 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.
That support comes from Gnome Online Accounts.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeOnlineAccounts/Provider...
Last time I tried it, that only supported the virtual drive thing, so no actual files locally.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#89Just 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…
I agree with all of your complaints, but will say Gnome nautilus integration is working pretty well these days, and allows me to interact with it more like a filesystem than a shitty webui.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's Google Chat, which is really made for companies but available on normal accounts too, and Google Messages, their SMS/MMS/RCS app for Android, which requires that you have an Android phone and a phone plan.
Also Hangouts, Meet, Duo, Allo, Spaces. I don't even know if all of them are alive now, and I don't care enough to check.
I used Allo for some time. It's long gone now.