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Re:The new Dropbox by blfr on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:28AM (#20165599)
if that's important to me I get Google drive - the integration will be better because the same company makes the different tools and you can actually stay within the eco-system. If Dropbox are planning to compete with this it's very difficult to see how they win over Google

I agree with you completely, Google should have squashed Dropbox like a tiny, helpless bug that it is in comparison. Yet reality disagrees and they haven't.

Google can't even deliver a proper client for Google Drive on Linux which is a system many Googlers use. It all remains a mystery to me.

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Re:The new Dropbox by vinay427 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:09PM (#20168755)
> Google can't even deliver a proper client for Google Drive on Linux which is a system many Googlers use. It all remains a mystery to me.

Despite it being promised at the launch of Google Drive, several years ago. I finally moved off of Drive to nextCloud as a result.

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Re:The new Dropbox by jiveturkey on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:44AM (#20175949)
If you can use nextCloud at all, as a substitute for Google Drive, then Drive isn't the product you wanted in the first place.

The strength of Google Drive is in the collaborative document editing. Not the "drive" aspect of it.

Today anyway. It didn't start out like that.

As a sort of global filesystem, it fails miserably IMHO and always did. Even if it were available on Linux, I wouldn't use it for that purpose.

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