Microsoft Onedrive and Linux? An idea, but need input

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  • onedrive

    OneDrive Client for Linux

  • Seconding on onedriver, especially if you want whole drive access to OneDrive. If you don't mind getting into the nitty gritty, then abraunegg's onedrive client could also work but in my experience it doesn't play well with too many access from different clients at the same time.

  • onedriver

    A native Linux filesystem for Microsoft OneDrive

  • Seconding on onedriver, especially if you want whole drive access to OneDrive. If you don't mind getting into the nitty gritty, then abraunegg's onedrive client could also work but in my experience it doesn't play well with too many access from different clients at the same time.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • syncthing

    Open Source Continuous File Synchronization

  • Next is using a platform-agnostic sync utility such as Resilio, SyncThing, or SeaFile to sync to a designated OneDrive syncer Windows device (VM or some cheap laptop or smth). Personally, I prefer Resilio, but I've used SyncThing for a long while and they're fine if you're not going to also sync to phone (where you'd want selective sync which they don't have).

  • Seafile

    High performance file syncing and sharing, with also Markdown WYSIWYG editing, Wiki, file label and other knowledge management features.

  • Next is using a platform-agnostic sync utility such as Resilio, SyncThing, or SeaFile to sync to a designated OneDrive syncer Windows device (VM or some cheap laptop or smth). Personally, I prefer Resilio, but I've used SyncThing for a long while and they're fine if you're not going to also sync to phone (where you'd want selective sync which they don't have).

  • winapps

    Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.

  • Also, this is a pretty good guide to make low resource VM. Fair warning, though, sometimes it'll take a long while for the Windows VM to become responsive again if you left it idle for long and then do heavy tasks on your main VM.

  • rclone

    "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files

  • * Via 'rclone' - https://rclone.org/ - one way sync client, open source and free

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