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Again, no Linux version.

The Linux version (or, rather, "a Linux version") of the Drive app, first announced five years ago, has been Google's internal Duke Nukem Forever.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3z0yft/why_does_goog...

5 years plus and counting. They just don't care.

dropbox + dokuwiki is a nice combination

The Linux desktop market share clearly isn't large enough to devote resources to. But you can take comfort in the fact that that creates space for 3rd parties:

https://www.insynchq.com/

Right, because when it comes to your data, giving access to yet another third-party, this time from Singapore, is always a good idea.

> The Linux desktop market share clearly isn't large enough to devote resources to

Dropbox has a Linux client. I personally couldn't give a damn about Google's motivation. By not releasing a Linux client, it means they don't care about me as their customer.

100GB for $2/month is pretty nice after you exhaust your 15GB. Sucks that the storage sizes only go up by factors of 10 though.

The problem for me with google apps is that they don't have a family pack. I can get Office 365 for 10 dollars for 5 home users, and each would get 1 TB, 60 minutes of skype, and office desktop. I am waiting for google to offer something similar (sans the desktop version). If I was to purchase G.Suite for 5, it would be 50 dollars vs 10 dollars (and no 300 minutes of skype).

Thanks - I didn't know about it. Do Office 365 comes with both the browser and desktop counterparts?

Correct. Office 365 offers both. The only problem for me, is that I rather use gmail than outlook.

In general you get what you pay for.

OneDrive doesn't do file versioning, which means that it is useless for backups. It only takes one of your family members to get a ransomware in order to understand this ;-)

I have a 1 year Office 365 subscription too, but I'm not using my OneDrive space.

If you really think about it, Office 365 is overpriced. I already have Apple's Keynote, Numbers and Pages. They used to cost $19.99 per item, as a one time fee. Google Docs is also free and actually works compared with Office.com

Digging the link to Drive File System reveals that is not Linux either. Like Dropbox's proposed product, this also seems baffling from a technical perspective. Implementing a user-mode filesystem is the easiest on Linux.

I find it interesting that they showed the Photos app on OSX. Seems like at least one of this updates goals is to challenge iCloud desktop users.

If we wait just a little longer we can discuss the product itself.

I use the drive CLI on a regular basis, easy workflow for thos familiar with DVCS: https://github.com/odeke-em/drive#drive

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