I’m soon going to transition to full Kubuntu and remove Windows from my PC. I’ve been looking for alternatives to a lot of the stuff I use and this one was a bit problematic. Or so I thought.

I’m also going to migrate from Google to Proton at the same time and it looks like some of these tools support Proton Drive as well!

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I would probably just rclone mount it and call it a day

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Best solution I’ve found that allows interacting with google drive files from any application and from the command line: https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse

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why not rclone?

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It sounds like Google Drive isn’t a very good option for Linux users. Better look for another provider which support Linux, or to do it yourself with syncthing.

If all you need is 15 Go, it’s something which can easily be stored on another device and synced with syncting. If you need more you’d have to pay anyway, go pick anything but Google.

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What do you mean? There’s literally an integration with GDrive in Gnome and KDE.

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These integrations have big limitations which I would consider deal breakers. To quote this blog post :

❌ Files are not stored on the local disk like a proper Cloud service app

❌ Cannot be used without internet

That’s better than nothing, but definitely not a good option.

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For sure it could benefit from extra features like a watchdog that checks for any file changes and synchronizes when there is. Like the Windows tool.

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The KIO GDrive module allows access to Google Drive from KDE apps like Dolphin.

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@Successful_Try543 @cyborganism @thelinuxEXP IDK if this is what we look for but it surely helps, we are looking for an official client, well, this is as close as it can get

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Works great with the built in Gnome connector, no idea about how to do that in KDE

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KIO GDrive is the KDE equivalent https://feddit.org/comment/1494000

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