Very cool but Proton Drive for Linux when?
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2024
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I feel like their goal is more close to providing a privacy-minded alternative to Google's G-suite to "regular" users, so for me it totally makes sense. But yeah, I'm also really waiting for the Linux drive app.
They don't care.
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.
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.
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.
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.
. 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.
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^.
Those are alternatives not the 100% compatible solutions that professionals who spend 8h/day in front of those tools need.
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One of the reasons for me not to switch, is because there is no Linux client.
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
I don’t think they don’t care, they have been adding Linux versions for all of their apps (except drive of course). The CEO themselves said in an interview that a Linux client for drive is inevitable and they will make one, but one of the hardest clients to develop.
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Doesn't rclone work?
I'm gonna try to see if you can use a windows vm with proton drive and a shared folder with the host system. Kinda a pain, but if it works it works. What I'd really love is an api for this kind of asshattery
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For every proton post, can we please get a bot that auto posts these, to save everyone the effort:
- proton isn't private / yes it is / they never claimed to be
- wasnt there a case when they shared that activist account / you have the facts wrong, here's what actually happened
- [insert proton app name] for Linux when? / Linux is only x% of user base
- proton needs to finish [insert proton app name] before starting something new / they are different teams so not relevant
- proton needs to make X / no they don't
- people shouldn't put all their eggs in one basket / don't use the service then
Thanks!
You forgot proton is glowing / no they're not
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FYI this does not include spreadsheets, so if you're hoping to replace an office suite, it's not there yet.
Spreadsheets are life. I think in spreadsheets. I hope it comes soon.
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Maybe Cryptpad would be a good option if you need spreadsheets more than documents.
However, subscribing is aiding in their funding, and that could help get them there quicker.
Looks like its based on Standard Notes
It probably IS standard notes, given that Proton acquired them.
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I need an android app
Nice.
This might just be the push to fully switch over from Google.
I would need spreadsheets and slideshow presentations as well.
Has anyone used it?
How did you get to it?
Clicked the link:
At that time, if you go to drive.proton.me(new window) and click on New in the top left, you will see the ability to create a New document
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What would be the benefits of this over Nextcloud, apart from not having to set it up?
Lack of true open cooperation? Oh wait, you said benefit.... Ease of use? Maybe? And slightly less buggy?
Over nextcloud probably the e2ee. I suppose soon they will also integrate this better with email (like you can attach directly and save directly from email), so the seamless integrations with the rest of the products will probably amount to other benefits over time.
Is it FOSS?
I imagine it is. Developing something like that in house would take a lot. Probably Collabora or something.
I am still waiting for contacts app😔
So... where's the source?
“After years of pushing their proprietary and closed solutions to privacy minded people Proton decided that it was in their best interest to further bury said users into their service as a form of vendor lock-in. To achieve this they made yet anoter non-standard groupware feature - a document editor.
Is there an open standard for encrypted asynchronous colabreative document creation and editing?
As open components, we have the OpenDocument standard + signal protocol for E2EE + CRDTs for conflict resolution. No idea whether they're compatible though.
As a product, Collabora Online is open and collaborative.
Collabra seems close. They do use ODF. And you can host you're own server.
But they don't seem to use E2EE. And the collaborative aspect doesn't apear to be an open standard you can use with different software packages.
E2EE would be nice, but what's your idea of open standard for collaboration as opposed to simply open source?
If we had multiple software solutions implementing the same ways of collaborating what would be gained / in what ways would they differentiate and still remain compatible?
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Exactly. At this point idk why anyone bothers migrating to things that are not backed by open standards. The price of vendor lock-in always comes.
Until I can easily export the data, where is the vendor lock?
Vendor lock means that migrating away has significant cost or technical challenges.
Take this case: documents saved are first of all easily downloadable from drive (in bulk), and also exportable in markdown.
They change pricing/add features that I don't want/sell off the company (hard now that it's managed by a nonprofit but still) etc.? I make a nice bulk download and move everything in whatever other system I want. I can do the same for contacts, email (I use my own domains) and calendar. Basically, 1h + the time to download files and I am moved to another provider.
Can you elaborate in what you think the vendor lock looks like?
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