Proton Drive

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I am trying to figure out of there is a native Linux app for Proton Drive but their website is unclear. Its seems to reference a Windows app only. I have devices running Windows 11, macOS and Fedora. I want an alternative to OneDrive that has a native client for all three operating systems. Is that Proton Drive? If its just web access, I might as well stick with OneDrive.

Edit: AI says that the Linux app is a Snap or AppImage. Those aren’t supported by Fedora are they? No Flatpak seems to exist.

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AI is wrong. There’s no Proton Drive app on linux. You can however use the web version.

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AppImages should work pretty straightforwardly (though you might need to install fuse and fuse-libs if they aren’t present).

Snaps can be made to work if you install the snapd package.

However, that doesn’t help you in the case of Proton Drive if it doesn’t actually exist in those formats :slightly_smiling_face:

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Proton Drive doesn’t have a Linux app yet, it is still in development according to Proton 2025 Autumn Roadmaps

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Thank you for the info. Looks like I’ll be sticking with OneDrive for a wihile.

Do you know of any cloud storage platform that works natively on all three operating systems?

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As far as I am aware, MEGA does but I cannot recommend it. pCloud should work as well

You could also check out rclone to use Proton Drive on Linux, however since this is not officially supported it might not fully work.

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The providers I have found to suit my needs don’t have native Linux support, so I ended up using Syncthing for file synchronization, given that it has support on any non-mobile OS[1]. But you need to preferably have an always on system with enough storage.

Also, I am not a big fan of their UI, but if you’d prefer to stick to cloud storage providers, Nextcloud does have a desktop app for Linux (as well as for Mac, Windows and mobile OSes). For those not looking a self-hosting solution, there are certified providers of Nextcloud services.

  1. There are also third-party mobile apps. ↩︎