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Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor (proton.me)

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[–] mayra 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That might be it. Whatever the reason, it seems like a missed opportunity. Especially when they go out of their way to provide direct APKs to Android users who do not use Play Store.

[–] halcyoncmdr 21 points 5 months ago

Especially when they go out of their way to provide direct APKs to Android users who do not use Play Store.

They already had to make the APK for the Play Store, providing it directly doesn't require extra dev work.

[–] TCB13 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They might have done their stats and figured out that only 0.0000001% of their users would benefit from it and there weren't much profit there to make.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Use that linux mail web app... maybe they will change their minds.

Linux crowd is hard to appease tho

Hopefully one day when we finally hit the year of Linux Desktop this changes.

Currently, gamers are on boarding. I think once critical mass joins with their buying power, things should change.

[–] TCB13 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

. I think once we critical mass joins with their buying power, things should change.

Yeah me too, but for that to happen you need to get: Adobe CC, MS Office, Autodesk and a few others the masses use as native desktop apps. The Linux Desktop year will not come until those exist... and until GNOME fixes their shit and stop thinking their users are stupid and desktop icons are useless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Adobe CC

GNUMPY (GIMP), Kdenlive, Audacity

MS Office

Libre Office

Autodesk

BricsCAD, FreeCAD, etc. ->https://alternativeto.net, https://www.bricsys.com/

Also Autodesk might work on Linux since .NET was recently integrated to major distros, though I'm merely thinking .NET = .NET for AutoCAD which might not be true, or is not the whole picture^1,2,3^.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/.NET
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/autocad-on-linux/td-p/7927396 (AutoCAD requires .NET frameworks)

[–] TCB13 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Those are alternatives not the 100% compatible solutions that professionals who spend 8h/day in front of those tools need.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

One of the reasons for me not to switch, is because there is no Linux client.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

If they had a contacts app for Android and a proton drive Linux client I would be 1,000% on board. I would switch basically everything over and be more than happy to pay for it. Useless to me otherwise