i for one welcome more options that aren't google meet and zoom
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Or <shudder> Teams
Meanwhile Linux users are left lacking features. What is this, 4 brand new services from Proton in as many months. MullvadVPN, Tuta, and Addy are looking more and more attractive every time you skip over Linux.
I'm regretting both prepaying for so many years of services and having so many email domains.
I think I'm going to self host a mail server next and see how good it is.
Self hosting email is pain.
Less so about the technical piece, but high chance a peer won't fully accept your mail.
That's really the thing I'm most concerned about.
At this point I think I need to recalculate the cost for VPN and secure email. I'm paying for those, potentially value add things like drive are languishing (although I was hopeful with the community rclone adapter) and they are using funds for a lot of stuff that is irrelevant.
There is a use for proton meet but is it really want the broad customer base wants? It feels like their leadership has a vision and customer needs are being bypassed.
They are stretching into the business sector. This is important for that.
This makes a lot of sense. I wish I had a better feel for when they would shift focus from product introduction to product improvement again though.
I remember when people thought offering VPN was a distraction from improving their email features.
This complaint is getting old.
If the prices don't go up, you have a point.
To someone who is/was interested in Proton's email service but not their VPN service this may still be a fair point though imo. I don't think it being a rehashed complaint here automatically invalidates it.
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A possible counter argument could be that other customers don't use the services you do use and in the end it all evens out, but you'd need to look at the data to know if that actually is true. Perhaps if the all-in package has become less interesting for you and you could downgrade your membership to only get premium vpn or mail.
But that aside, i totally agree the vision of the leadership only makes sense if it is based on the needs of customers and I also doubt whether they are Protons main interest.
That is absolutely true and I've been quite happy with the VPN and email offerings. I spend most of my time in tech literate communities where the call for Linux drive support is loudest and I'm not tied to all the other spaces.
For me the question really becomes if I can save by switching providers or switch to a provider whose path better aligns to where I want to go. Drive is something I've had my eye on for a while as a way to make my subscription more valuable, instead all the 'value add' offerings they promote are not worth anything to me.
Yeah. I would love to use proton drive on projects with other people. But I can't argue for proton drive when it doesn't have basic spreadsheets and presentations.
I also can't leave Google drive until proton has those.
Proton even bought Standard Notes but rather than port those features over they keep standing up other products.
I wish they would add a Sheets/Excel competitor to go with the Docs competitor they have in Proton Drive now. My needs for a spreadsheet application fall squarely into a crack of being so little that its not worth hosting something myself but large enough that it is a good value add for some hosted service I am already using or paying for.
Self hosted: https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs
Buzzword bingo (P2P, CRDT, E2EE): https://github.com/coast-team/mute
I have used cryptpad.fr for this recently, works pretty good.
I have used cryptpad.fr for this recently, works pretty good.
Linux application this time? Still waiting for native support on Proton Drive.
Still waiting for ProtonVPN support for Linux distributions other than Ubuntu/"Gnome Debian".
The Flatpak and Arch (I know, unofficial versions) packages appear to be broken for quite some time, and Proton devs have closed a bug report for it as it's not a "supported platform".
It's working fine in my machine.
What's broken about them? I just installed the package from the AUR a couple of days ago and it seems to be working fine for me.
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There are RPMs as well, but yeah, Proton has terrible Linux support overall.
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(It's starting to feel like Proton is going to end up being a hosted Nextcloud)
I already have encrypted video conferencing with Matrix, but I just tried Proton Meet (I'm a Visionary customer) and it was indeed a smooth experience starting up a meeting. I will likely use it whenever I need to videoconf with some random.
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How do they have an entire webpage about the product with absolutely zero information about how to use it?
Proton Meet is in closed beta testing.
So possibly you can't yet
edit: based on discussion here you can probably access it at https://meet.proton.me/ if you're a Visionary subscriber (maybe they'll have sent you an email about testing it?). For everyone else it just says "coming soon".
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