Why Personal Cloud Storage is so bad on Linux?

desconectado@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.ml – 112 points –

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?

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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.

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.