The CEO of PROTON answers YOUR questions! Drive, Linux support, Photos, features, and a lot more!
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Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton (Mail, Drive, VPN, Pass...) answered a lot of the questions you, the community, asked, in an interview that covers basically ever...

The link right here goes to 40:02 of Proton’ boss on the TLE channel about Linux support, where a Drive Client is deemed so difficult to achieve that they don’t even have a roadmap for it. Nor is the word “Linux” featured anywhere on proton’s pages about Drive.

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If I believe what I see on Lemmy, 99% of users here are on Linux, and the 1% remaining probably are just waiting on a Drive Linux Client to make the switch, right? Right?

Please take the survey and maybe mention politely our deep sorrow and profound distress.

Thanks!

  • ReallyZen@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    6 months ago

    If you use the config file generator from the Proton website, you can have a Wiregard config tailor-made to load in NetworkManager for instance. Or several with or without NAT, different exits and so on.

    I don’t know how this isn’t widely known, it’s been there for a while.

    • pathief@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I know about this but it sucks for several reasons:

      • This doesn’t use the proton vpn client

      • You need to setup configuration files for each country you wish to connect

      • You configure a server directly, you can’t just connect to “France” and have the client choose the server with the least load

      • You can no longer select a random country, you have to introduce the randomness yourself

      • You have to manage configurations like kill switches on your own, since you’re no longer using the proton client

      It’s certainly a viable option, but why must linux users have all these drawbacks? :|