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This is an interesting take, and i agree with you. I myself have used dropbox for personal stuff, and onedrive with several of my previous employers for years
by mxuribe 6y ago
This is an interesting take, and i agree with you. I myself have used dropbox for personal stuff, and onedrive with several of my previous employers for years now. For any person or business that i know who is all-in on microsoft products/services, i recommend to just adopt leveraging oneDrive, and life for them gets easier. (I didn't say better in other ways...but certainly easier.)
In fact, oneDrive is good enough that i signed up my family for the o365 family plan, because the cost is hard to beat (and because my family doesn't care if their machine is windows or linux)... But, when i went to start mixing in my files (vs my partner's and rest of family's files)...I learned that onedrive does __NOT RUN NATIVELY ON LINUX__ ...and linux is my personal daily driver. Hence, while my family, and all of our collective and shared files (including family photos) live on a paid oneDrive account, my stuff (files that really only pertain to me like dev. projects, etc.) live in dropbox, because dropbox runs decent enough on my linux machine. I can not wait for the day when dropbox is NOT the only decent option for linux machines. (Caveat: I am a big fan of nextcloud, but they're not there just yet...hopefully soon though!)
- Topgamer7 6y agoI mount onedrive on linux pretty well with rclone. 1. Setup rclone with onedrive (you have to copy an oauth token iirc) 2. Run mount nohup rclone --vfs-cache-mode writes mount onedrive: ~/onedrive &
- mxuribe 6y agoI recall giving rclone a glance...but I thought it was more suited for a 1-way file send? (Like a sort of backup approach) So, does rclone work bi-directionally? In other words, if I add a file to my oneDrive via, say,mobile...as long as I setup rclone it will sync back to my laptop, and vice versa, etc.??
- adithyakk 6y agoRclone doesn't support bi directional sync. The only way to do this is to create two different folders and sync them seperately
- mxuribe 6y agoOk, yeah that was what I recalled too. Although that does not diminish the coolness of rclone, and I will have other use-cases that requires its use. I just need a bidirectional synch for my linux machines. Thanks!
- josh_frome 6y agoI have been happy with this OneDrive client on Ubuntu for the last year: https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/ https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/
- mxuribe 6y agoThanks! I had heard of another popular onedrive client for linux too (can't recall the name)...but have been hesitant to use such a client. Maybe it's time to try one; this one! Thanks for sharing!