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> To get started, visit dropbox.com/capture on your Windows or macOS computer to download the app. So, no Linux client. Dropbox is one of the few companies whi

by adiM 5y ago

> To get started, visit dropbox.com/capture on your Windows or macOS computer to download the app. So, no Linux client. Dropbox is one of the few companies which had a proper linux client for syncing files. It is a pity that they are now releasing products which do not have linux support.

kuschku 5y ago
Not even the demo video shows properly in Firefox on Linux, as it’s HEVC in a Quicktime container…
- tyingq 5y ago
  I see webm on chrome: https://aem.dropbox.com/cms/content/dam/dropbox/warp/en-us/capture/04_Capture_Record_DWG_1080x1080.webm https://aem.dropbox.com/cms/content/dam/dropbox/warp/en-us/c...
  - kuschku 5y ago
    This is what I get in firefox on linux: https://aem.dropbox.com/cms/content/dam/dropbox/warp/en-us/capture/04_Capture_Record_DWG_1080x1080.mov https://aem.dropbox.com/cms/content/dam/dropbox/warp/en-us/c...
    - tyingq 5y ago
      Heh. On windows, it downloads it, then Windows Media Player asks me to pay $0.99 for an HEVC codec. It's like a back to the 90's "install RealVideo™" experience.
brightball 5y ago
It really is. One of the primary reasons I’ve been using them for 15 years is a commitment to cross platform. I may seriously have to rethink this moving forward and that’s going to be odd for something that was such a core piece of my tooling.
seanieb 5y ago
As soon as Linux desktop software becomes anyway profitable to develop and maintain, I’m sure companies like Dropbox will build for it. That’s not Dropbox’s problem. It doesn’t help that Linux isn’t really a single OS but a bunch of different distro’s, file systems, installers, making building a single client impossible. oh and horrible entitlement thrown in for good measure. Get that house in order and maybe it’ll be easier to build and maintain.
- peakaboo 5y ago
  How is it impossible when I'm literally using Dropbox, VS Code, Datagrip, Firefox, Bitwarden, Telegram on Linux every day? There is a huge amount of high quality cross platform apps out there, and my Linux desktop is not only fast, it's also extreamly reliable and has no Microsoft or Apple inside. Dropbox can't make file sharing cross platform? That's frankly ridicolous.

by adiM 5y ago

kuschku 5y ago

Not even the demo video shows properly in Firefox on Linux, as it’s HEVC in a Quicktime container…

tyingq 5y ago
I see webm on chrome: https://aem.dropbox.com/cms/content/dam/dropbox/warp/en-us/capture/04_Capture_Record_DWG_1080x1080.webm https://aem.dropbox.com/cms/content/dam/dropbox/warp/en-us/c...
- kuschku 5y ago
  This is what I get in firefox on linux: https://aem.dropbox.com/cms/content/dam/dropbox/warp/en-us/capture/04_Capture_Record_DWG_1080x1080.mov https://aem.dropbox.com/cms/content/dam/dropbox/warp/en-us/c...
  - tyingq 5y ago
    Heh. On windows, it downloads it, then Windows Media Player asks me to pay $0.99 for an HEVC codec. It's like a back to the 90's "install RealVideo™" experience.

brightball 5y ago

It really is. One of the primary reasons I’ve been using them for 15 years is a commitment to cross platform. I may seriously have to rethink this moving forward and that’s going to be odd for something that was such a core piece of my tooling.

seanieb 5y ago

As soon as Linux desktop software becomes anyway profitable to develop and maintain, I’m sure companies like Dropbox will build for it. That’s not Dropbox’s problem. It doesn’t help that Linux isn’t really a single OS but a bunch of different distro’s, file systems, installers, making building a single client impossible. oh and horrible entitlement thrown in for good measure. Get that house in order and maybe it’ll be easier to build and maintain.

peakaboo 5y ago
How is it impossible when I'm literally using Dropbox, VS Code, Datagrip, Firefox, Bitwarden, Telegram on Linux every day? There is a huge amount of high quality cross platform apps out there, and my Linux desktop is not only fast, it's also extreamly reliable and has no Microsoft or Apple inside. Dropbox can't make file sharing cross platform? That's frankly ridicolous.