The main cloud services don’t even work natively (GoogleDrive, OneDrive, iCloud) basically the only mainstream choice is Dropbox. I tried to use Google Drive in Mint, and it’s a pain to get it to work, and usually it stops working after computer restarts.

Someone has a recommendation about how to handle these services?

  • RoboRay@kbin.social
    32·
    2 年前

    Google drive integrates simply into the file manager on Gnome for cloud storage. It doesn’t do offline file-sync between devices, however.

    The Microsoft and Apple products don’t support Linux because… Microsoft and Apple.

      • RoboRay@kbin.social
        2·
        2 年前

        No, the Google Drive implementation is just for cloud storage. It doesn’t do offline file-sync. I’ll update my earlier comment.

    • OboTheHobo@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 年前

      I managed to get one drive working on linux, able to mount it onto the filesystem using rclone.

      • RoboRay@kbin.social
        2·
        2 年前

        Yes, it’s often possible to get unsupported services working, but it’s rarely simple and it’s prone to breakage over time with changes to the system as well as to the service. I do not recommend it to anyone seeking a simple solution and I will not do it for someone I need to support.

    • LonelyWendigo@lemmy.world
      32·
      2 年前

      I sick of seeing Google Drive recommended as an alternative to dropbox. (Because I am looking for an alternative to dropbox and so far nothing has feature parity with it and the features I value.) If an app forces me to be logged in to a graphical environment locally on Linux then it has already failed to understand why people use *nix. Google Drive doesn’t keep offline copies and it doesn’t work on CLI. So basically useless on my server. If the files aren’t natively and transparently accesible as a local filesystem while they are synced to the cloud, it’s not a viable Linux Dropbox alternative. I want my files on my machine and a copy on the cloud, not the other way round.

      • RoboRay@kbin.social
        2·
        2 年前

        I have not and do not recommend it. I simply responded to the claim that it doesn’t work, because it does. OP has something else going on that’s causing Google Drive problems.

        I use both Dropbox and Mega and recommend either for someone seeking a simple cloud-sync solution.