From Team:

Hi everyone,

We’re relentlessly working to improve Proton Drive’s performance across all platforms thanks to your valuable feedback.

This week ends with an update in Proton Drive’s encryption that increases single file upload by 140% on the macOS app.

If you haven’t already, you can download the Proton Drive macOS app here: https://proton.me/drive/download.

We recognize that we still need to address other optimizations and fixes. This improvement is yet another step in our commitment to deliver reliable, fast, and secure apps for you.

Let us know what you think, and please keep your feedback coming!

Proton Team

      • KairosEnglish
        5•3 months ago

        As a consolation prize it “works” with rclone

      • setVeryLoud(true);English
        5•3 months ago

        I’m tempted to move away from Proton tbh, I don’t get enough value as a Linux user to justify the price. Might keep SimpleLogin though.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•3 months ago

      I only use Linux or as I’ve taken to calling it GN Bazzite on my desktop and Debian for my server stuff for now, and none of them use proton because of this.

    • ᥫ᭡ 𐑖ミꪜᴵ𝔦 ᥫ᭡English
      4•3 months ago

      I use ProtonVPN on both Linux and Windows and the difference is night and day… well… more accurately only on Windows because it doesn’t even launch on Linux… this what made me not invest much time on other Proton products ( because I know they’re going to suck on Linux )

      • Elven_MithrilEnglish
        7•3 months ago

        I use protonVPN on my Fedora laptop and works without a problem. Offcourse the UI and feel feels outdated, but hey it works! Its just sad that the rest of the protonvpn apps (win, Mac) looks&feel better.

      • bruhSoulzEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        Im on arch and I managed to get it working using OpenVPN, I’m a dunse yet I did it fairly easily :3 you could try that.

        • ᥫ᭡ 𐑖ミꪜᴵ𝔦 ᥫ᭡English
          2•3 months ago

          Thank you, it worked on Fedora… and it works way better than the app, the app used to disconnect every now and then, but this method doesn’t, interesting

          • bruhSoulzEnglish
            1•3 months ago

            Im happy i helped :) keep in mind free tier accounts dont allow torrenting or other peer to peer activity so if u do that it will start behaving oddly and your terminal will spit out large texts warning you to stop

  • @[email protected]English
    15•3 months ago

    I recently read that the Linux client is something that might not happen for a long time, if at all. The user base is too small and it doesn’t make sense economically etc.

    I have been hoping that a company that values privacy would see the benefit of people switching to Linux, and that having first-class support for Linux clients would be valuable in itself, as a message about Protons values.

    If there’s no money, then that’s unfortunate. But the free and open source community has been known to put in a lot of work when there’s a need. Would it be possible to make it easier for people to work on a community client? The main thing needed from Proton would be documenting the API I guess.

    Is Proton interested in working together with the free and open source community?

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      4•3 months ago

      From the AMA, someone suggested

      Yeah some Up/Download + simple management API would be really nice. Since Proton is loved a lot among programmers, I’m very sure there’ll be a lot of people in the community to create some implementation their own (including me)

      And Andy(CEO) replied

      This is actually good/important input. We went this direction with Proton VPN on Linux and the first version was a community built version which as OK. Eventually, we had to take the effort in-house to ensure it was sufficiently well maintained and keeping up with the latest features, but it was still a goo way to get started. We will indeed consider this for Proton Drive also, although it is a more complicated product (includes complex parts like sync engine and version conflict resolution logic, etc). -Andy

      Also, when pointed about Henry,Andy replied

      Yes, we know Henry, he should have access to the API specs/docs and he has a direct line of communication with us. -Andy

      So all hope is not i would say. And i would prefer rclone and apps based over than than electron wrappers tbh.

      You can read the whole thread here : Redditt comment

      • @[email protected]English
        3•3 months ago

        Oh that sounds good! I would also prefer rclone. I’m using the protonvpn through the native gnome network manager + ovpn profile rather than having to add some third party repo or the community flatpak.
        I wonder if that “he should have access” means that the API specs can be public information or more like “we trust henry but it’s still secret.” I guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens next.

  • @vatlarkEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    I’m happy to see improvements to Drive even if I don’t use Mac.

    I would love to share photo albums with friends from Proton, many of which use Signal and would find Proton compelling, but I cant.

    I recently needed to make a shared account with my parents and we went with Google rather than Proton because they don’t have spreadsheets yet.