10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderJust give us a web filesystem already. Stop with these shitty infantilized GUIs with no hierarchical organization and an overreliance on search to find things. I have literally hundreds of thousands to millions of files on my local machines and have no trouble remembering where I put things. Drive can't seem to scale past a few dozen before it's confusing, useless, and apparently lossy. Remember when web servers would serve up the contents of a directory as a list with…
Forget Google Drive. Just run Nextcloud on your own VPS. I put mine on a digitalocean VPS and it costs me $5 a month for ~20GB of storage. Nextcloud has great sync clients for linux, iPhone and Windows. (It has clients for Mac and Android too, although I've never used them.) And google doesn't get access to my data or metadata. [1] https://nextcloud.com
I've got it; I was at Google about a year back when they had an open beta. At that time they were encouraging everyone at the company who'd signed up to take home the beta client and install it on whatever computers they wished. It works okay; There's a bug where it will occasionally re-sync everything, but last I saw there was serious work on it. Why haven't they released it, if it was this close to finished? I can't…
Rclone. The only answer.
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- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 785
- Total comments
- 384
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-24 | How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming?First breakout | waffle_ss | 108 | 59 |
| 2017-04-20 | How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming? | mserdarsanli | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-06-15 | Five years later, still waiting | whyagaindavid | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-08-17 | How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming? | zdw | 150 | 109 |
| 2022-04-24 | 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google DriveHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | politelemon | 520 | 215 |
| 2023-07-24 | How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming | lopkeny12ko | 4 | 1 |