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It's not difficult to mount Box on Linux. Google Drive integration comes built into Nautilus IIRC. There are other solutions for Linux integrations with both.

by wanda 10y ago

It's not difficult to mount Box on Linux. Google Drive integration comes built into Nautilus IIRC. There are other solutions for Linux integrations with both. Perhaps not as easy as Dropbox but can't see it being a winning USP. I read somewhere that Google Drive has a Linux client used by Google enployees internally—so if it were significant, it would probably only be a matter of time before this client would be released for public use. I don't think it is significant though.

bad_user 10y ago
I'm a mixed Linux / OS X user. > It's not difficult to mount Box on Linux It is, I've been there. > Google Drive integration comes built into Nautilus IIRC All available Google Drive "integrations" for Linux are complete shit. The only one that works is Insync.com, a commercial solution that implies you have to give the access to all of your data to yet another third-party. > I read somewhere that Google Drive has a Linux client used by Google enployees internally This just adds salt to injury. In other words they don't give a crap about their customers, preferring instead to just sit on that big pile of money they make from advertising and intruding on their users' lives. > I don't think it is significant though. But of course it is. Anything having to do with file storage also has to do with servers and Linux is the most popular server operating system, successfully used as a home server as well. For cheap you can setup a Raspberry Pi, with an external hard-drive and you could sync all of your files, as a private backup. Heck, all sorts of projects could use Google Drive for online storage. The actual significance is that they don't want people to do this, plus the Linux desktop competes with both Android and Chrome OS, being a conflict of interest. And like any other company that wants to control the underlying platform, for lock-in purposes, they only develop apps on a need-to-do basis, only for really popular platforms and they aren't doing a good job on non-Google OSes. For example their iOS apps are inferior and with less features than the Android ones. Microsoft has taught them well.

by wanda 10y ago

bad_user 10y ago

I'm a mixed Linux / OS X user. > It's not difficult to mount Box on Linux It is, I've been there. > Google Drive integration comes built into Nautilus IIRC All available Google Drive "integrations" for Linux are complete shit. The only one that works is Insync.com, a commercial solution that implies you have to give the access to all of your data to yet another third-party. > I read somewhere that Google Drive has a Linux client used by Google enployees internally This just adds salt to injury. In other words they don't give a crap about their customers, preferring instead to just sit on that big pile of money they make from advertising and intruding on their users' lives. > I don't think it is significant though. But of course it is. Anything having to do with file storage also has to do with servers and Linux is the most popular server operating system, successfully used as a home server as well. For cheap you can setup a Raspberry Pi, with an external hard-drive and you could sync all of your files, as a private backup. Heck, all sorts of projects could use Google Drive for online storage. The actual significance is that they don't want people to do this, plus the Linux desktop competes with both Android and Chrome OS, being a conflict of interest. And like any other company that wants to control the underlying platform, for lock-in purposes, they only develop apps on a need-to-do basis, only for really popular platforms and they aren't doing a good job on non-Google OSes. For example their iOS apps are inferior and with less features than the Android ones. Microsoft has taught them well.