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I am so close to getting my family to switch to Linux. A replacement for one drive, preferably a Proton one, is the last thing to tip the scales

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[–] Concussed@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

They way Andy explained it in an interview with Techlore (I think?) was that the large array of different file systems across the distro's makes it a difficult task. He said it in such a way that I felt he was basically saying to their time is better spent elsewhere, so it's probably smart to write it off. But hey, the browser interface is solid on FF, so at least there's that lol

[–] undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Linux has been treated as a second class citizen by Proton with pretty much all their products. Just look at the state of the ProtonVPN client compared to Windows. They are simply allocating less resources to Linux development in general compared to other platforms.

[–] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

FWIW, the Mac client lacks features found on Windows, but not as severely.

[–] shadowintheday2@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I kind of understand it though. Their official client is gtk based, there are distros that use qt, other distros don't use anything at all and instead the user build it. I ended up using wireguard/openvpn directly and just downloading proton config files and it worked greatly.

If they just provide a good server infrastructure and a reasonable app that works well on famous distros e.g Ubuntu, Fedora, it's enough

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 22 points 5 days ago

I don't think that should really be an issue. Isn't that exactly what FUSE is for? Providing a standardised way of interacting with a filesystem?