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The market size is not big enough to justify the internal costs of building and maintaining it.
For dev environments, you can workaround it using Windows + Drive filestream + WSL. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2999#issuecomment-91...
It feels like Google’s attention span, leadership longevity, and product development patience is roughly 3 years. Any product that survives longer than that probably has transcended beyond being a “pet project/toy” into a PR-problem or revenue-stream significant enough that it takes on a life of it’s own. As management turns over, that lease on life is renewed…
https://killedbygoogle.com/
There's always the excellent unofficial google-drive-ocamlfuse which uses FUSE to mount Google drive to a local directory.
https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse
Actually Google did made a version of Google Drive Filestream for Linux, and made it available it Google Colab, just that they never released it publicly for unknown reason. I have grabbed the binary of it. https://github.com/michaellee8/gdrivefs/tree/master/assets
This?
https://github.com/thejinx0r/DriveFS
It is the top hit for "google drivefs source code" on google. "google drivefs" just returns hits about clearing a cache on macos or something.
The duck duck go results are arguably more relevant, though one is a link to DriveFS.exe, which I don't plan to download.
I just want to collect the major options for Google Drive on Linux in a single comment, since a few options are scattered around:
Insync works well, and it's 50% off for a couple more days: https://www.insynchq.com/ Not affiliated, but $15 is not a lot to pay, as opposed to waiting for something that probably won't happen.
Rclone has support for Google Drive, and it's open source: https://rclone.org/
There's a command line client that uses a push/pull workflow: https://github.com/odeke-em/drive It was written by a member of the Google Drive team.
Gnome supports Google Drive, or at least used to, directly in Nautilus. I don't use Gnome, so I can't comment.
There may be other options I've missed, but the point is that there is already good support in multiple forms. I'd be interested to know what support Google could provide that's not already available.
I just want to collect the major options for Google Drive on Linux in a single comment, since a few options are scattered around:
Insync works well, and it's 50% off for a couple more days: https://www.insynchq.com/ Not affiliated, but $15 is not a lot to pay, as opposed to waiting for something that probably won't happen.
Rclone has support for Google Drive, and it's open source: https://rclone.org/
There's a command line client that uses a push/pull workflow: https://github.com/odeke-em/drive It was written by a member of the Google Drive team.
Gnome supports Google Drive, or at least used to, directly in Nautilus. I don't use Gnome, so I can't comment.
There may be other options I've missed, but the point is that there is already good support in multiple forms. I'd be interested to know what support Google could provide that's not already available.