Pretty self-explanatory. Proton Mail’s “Drive” app – an alternative to Google Drive or Dropbox – offers a desktop app for Windoze, MacOS, Android, and iOS users, but not for Linux users. I’m trying to get at least 1,000 signatures on a petition asking them for a Linux client. If you use Linux and Proton, I hope you’ll sign.
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Signed - I don’t use Proton - and - chances are if they did develop and publish a Linux app it probably wouldn’t have armhf or arm64 binaries… But I got that with Dropbox too (but at least it had Linux i386 and x86_64 binaries [in RPM and DEB] format)…
Anyway - looked at NextcCloud - but it was fiddly to setup - e.g. needed MySQL or PostgreSQL to self host it…
Then I found ResilioSync - loved it so much - bought it… Shame the vendor stopped supporting FreeBSD after 2.x (version 3 only supports nearly everything else [linux on arm, i386, x86_64, Windows, MacOS x86 and arm64, Android iOS] but FreeBSD - but the 2.7x client syncs with 3.x clients)…
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Thanks for signing!
Yeah, the Arm CPUs don’t get the love they deserve, yet (my secondary machine is a Raspberry Pi). Hopefully that will change over time.
I’ll check out ResilioSync, thanks for mentioning it. I’m a paying Proton user. I switched to their mail to (mostly) get away from GMail, and found that I liked their calendar, VPN, and password manager too. I’m currently using Dropbox, but if I can have cloud storage/sync with Proton, I will. I just don’t like using a web interface.
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Yes done that
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I’m happy with my self hosted Seafile, such a service may come handy at any time.
So I signed it 
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I’ve considered self-hosting and I only have one problem with it:
I have one, and only one, residence, so my files would necessarily all be in the same physical location. If the place burned down and all my drives got melted into sludge, my data would be gone.
That said, I HAVE thought about putting a NAS or whatever out in a shed in our yard. That would give it physical separation from my other machines.
Thanks for signing!
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So do I.
If the house burns, my #1 problem wouldn’t be my stored data.
Chances of it are low enough fortunately.
However, failing a drive is a real risk, that may happen.
So my server gets backed up every day automatically to another machine.
It is in another corner of the house, so that’s the georedundant replication 
Still in the same house.
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I signed.
I would definitely use this if Proton do it.
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I have proton so I signed to
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The Proton Community Survey opened at the start of this month, and is still taking submissions. One of the options for your most desired feature for Drive is Linux integration, so it seems it’s on their radar. Could also be worth filling out the survey - I got the email on April 30th if anyone needs to search for it.
Hope this is something they’re working on, I’d also much prefer to sync rather than manually upload to web.
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Thanks for mentioning that! I received the survey and responded to it myself.
There ARE ways to sync Linux to cloud storage – I’m using Dropbox, and some other services work but may require messing around with rclone, etc.
So far as I can tell, you USED to be able to use rclone to create a Proton Drive sync option, but apparently Proton killed that because it stopped supporting some particular token/secret scheme.
I like to keep things simple. I’ve messed with rclone in the past and it’s neat, but I try to avoid doing a bunch of command line stuff that I’ll forget the details of and then have to figure out how to modify or undo.
That said, if there’s not a desktop Linux app for Proton Drive soon, I’ll probably set one of my Raspberry Pis up as a network drive with e.g. syncthing.
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