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How do Googlers access Google Drive from their Linux workstations? Do they have an internal GDrive client?

by curt15 3y ago

martius 3y ago
Not that I know of, we have some virtual filesystems for specific things, but in general Drive is for shared docs, videos (recorded meetings/presentations) and things like this. We don't use drive to store other files. Actually, we don't really "store files" since almost everything we need is remote. See for instance this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13561096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13561096
plaidfuji 3y ago
I wonder the same, but I also wonder what the actual use case is for the Drive app on Linux. For me, Drive is mostly for syncing office docs (namely MS-office docs), PDFs and images among teams. That type of work doesn’t lend itself well to a Linux env anyway. And for programming-heavy sync tasks, a user will more likely use a remote Git repo for code and GCS for data. Does google even use MS office internally?
- capableweb 3y ago
  > Does google even use MS office internally That'd be weird, considering they have their own suite of office tools. Kind of like if Microsoft would be using Google Cloud rather than Azure internally.
  - olyjohn 3y ago
    Kinda like if Microsoft ran Linux on their cloud...
    - capableweb 3y ago
      Offering Linux on Azure makes sense, but do you think their own services they run in production run on Linux? If so, I'd be wary if I was a Windows Server customer.
- KingOfCoders 3y ago
  I write my articles in Markdown and would want to switch to a terminal based Linux (Pi Zero, low power, e-paper, distraction free) to do this instead of a GUI. (I currently use Goland and Scrivener to write articles and books)
surajrmal 3y ago
Through the web frontend. I'm not aware of any special fuse clients, nor is it particularly appealing. All files I store in it are for web based applications (primarily gsuite). We have alternative collosus based file share mounts which we can use for "native" files. I personally use git and/or rsync to share files between my various corp devices (laptop, cloud vm, desktop) in addition to those other options.
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How do Googlers access Google Drive from their Linux workstations? Do they have an internal GDrive client?

by curt15 3y ago

How do Googlers access Google Drive from their Linux workstations? Do they have an internal GDrive client?

Not that I know of, we have some virtual filesystems for specific things, but in general Drive is for shared docs, videos (recorded meetings/presentations) and things like this. We don't use drive to store other files. Actually, we don't really "store files" since almost everything we need is remote. See for instance this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13561096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13561096

plaidfuji 3y ago

I wonder the same, but I also wonder what the actual use case is for the Drive app on Linux. For me, Drive is mostly for syncing office docs (namely MS-office docs), PDFs and images among teams. That type of work doesn’t lend itself well to a Linux env anyway. And for programming-heavy sync tasks, a user will more likely use a remote Git repo for code and GCS for data. Does google even use MS office internally?

capableweb 3y ago
> Does google even use MS office internally That'd be weird, considering they have their own suite of office tools. Kind of like if Microsoft would be using Google Cloud rather than Azure internally.
- olyjohn 3y ago
  Kinda like if Microsoft ran Linux on their cloud...
  - capableweb 3y ago
    Offering Linux on Azure makes sense, but do you think their own services they run in production run on Linux? If so, I'd be wary if I was a Windows Server customer.
KingOfCoders 3y ago
I write my articles in Markdown and would want to switch to a terminal based Linux (Pi Zero, low power, e-paper, distraction free) to do this instead of a GUI. (I currently use Goland and Scrivener to write articles and books)

surajrmal 3y ago

Through the web frontend. I'm not aware of any special fuse clients, nor is it particularly appealing. All files I store in it are for web based applications (primarily gsuite). We have alternative collosus based file share mounts which we can use for "native" files. I personally use git and/or rsync to share files between my various corp devices (laptop, cloud vm, desktop) in addition to those other options.

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