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Re:The new Dropbox by weavie on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @09:26AM (#20164296)
Same. It isnt as nice as Dropbox as there doesn't seem to be any linux support, so I use Grive running as a cron job.

It does run on ZFS though. I never realised Dropbox didn't. I guess that puts to rest that ocasssional nagging thought that maybe it would be worth the extra £8 or so to move to Dropbox.

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Re:The new Dropbox by josteink on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @01:23PM (#20167050)
> It does run on ZFS though. I never realised Dropbox didn't.

It did. For years. But recently they added additional code to intentionally cripple it on non-ext4 systems.

Messing up working setups for existing users like that is just plain unprofessional.

I’m leaving, and this was the main reason: effectively no Linux-support.

Edit: after reading this announcement, I’m absolutely terrified. Setting up Nextcloud is now next on my to-do list.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a product pivot go this bad. I wonder how all the engineers at Dropbox feels about this.

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Re:The new Dropbox by beberlei on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:00AM (#20164695)
I am quite happy with Insync, which implements a dropbox like client on top of Google Drive and works on Linux.
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Re:The new Dropbox by dullgiulio on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @09:39AM (#20164439)
Have you ever looked at Perkeep (former Camlistore)?
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