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I've been using Google Drive in Windows for about a decade and have a good workflow. I recently transitioned to Linux but cannot seem to reliably connect my drive to the filesystem. My work provides unlimited Drive space and since it's for work I have shared directories with coworkers that I need access to every day. Hence, I'm kind of tied to GDrive.

Is there a reliable method of doing this? Rclone seems to be what I want but it seems to disconnect regularly, and often doesn't upload the changes I make which defeats the purpose.

Do Linux users just not use Drive?

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[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 5 months ago

When I pointed out that that makes no difference...then you switched to another reason.

It's not another reason. It's the same reason.

If it wasn't encrypted it would be trivial to spin up a local integration like Google or MS already have.

Since it is encrypted, it makes it significantly more complicated to develop. While this development may make sense on MS or Mac, it doesn't on Linux, because it requires more resources and serves a much much smaller number of users.

I've already explained all of this in the previous comments.

My Proton Vpn on linux install works

"Works" is right. Like I said, it's extremely basic compared to it's MS and Mac counterparts.

the e-mail bridge works

Notice how MS and Mac get fully-featured desktop clients and all Linux gets is a "bridge" to connect to an inbox client developed by someone else.

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