Google is the new IBM

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Google is the new IBM::Years of being one-upped on AI and cracking down on innovation turned the poster child for Silicon Valley cool into a dinosaur.

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Do you need it though? i feel like the linux userbase is already fairly low, and the intersection of people who cant do a RW mount with rclone ans uses linux is even lower.

You would be pouring a bunch of money into a development for the 0.001% Userbase

You can tell how passionate a company is with their products by their Linux support. That means no one there cares enough to push hard for Linux support. Even Dropbox has a Linux client.

Valve's commitment to Linux is why I've consistently bought games virtually exclusively through Steam.

I think at best, what you can tell is how many developers Maining linux are on that product's team.

Even Microsoft OneDrive...

There is an official Onedrive client for Linux?

Last time I checked there wasn’t and you had to rely on a third-party application, based on MS API (͡•_ ͡• )

I recently did this, and it was fucking annoying to create the app in Google's Cloud. Incredibly laggy (5-10 seconds until clicks register), loading times of up to a minute between navigations.

This was on a very beefy PC, I suspect the issue is that I used Firefox.

i feel like the linux userbase is already fairly low

Linux desktops now outnumber mac desktops, apparently.

Only if you don't count mac laptops as "desktop"

"desktop" in general is a much smaller number than it once was, since laptops can do so many of the things people once used desktops for.

Even if what you said was true, i think the better choice would be to go in the direction of simplicity, not the direction that favours segregation.