Emulating Proton Drive on Linux

2 years ago by root to c/proton_me

First off, I'm guessing this is the most active Proton Technologies community on Lemmy (if there is another, please let me know!)

I recently started playing around with Proton Drive, and my biggest complaint is that there is no dedicated Linux client.

I've run quite a few Windows application on Linux in the past using Wine/ Lutris/ Bottles, etc. However when trying to run the Proton Drive installer (for Windows), it quits prematurely with a generic error message.

I'm guessing there are some config options I need to tweek, or perhaps it knows it's not running in a Windows environment and prevents installation for security reasons. Anyone have any tips or done this successfully?

CMDR_Horn 2 points 2 years ago

No proton drive Linux client is the only thing keeping me from buying in to Proton ecosystem. That said, I wouldn’t trust a translation layer for the stability that I would need to keep my data from corrupting or other issues

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root 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, this is my concern as well. Not just the additional chance of data corruption, but the extra layer that you have to trust. I just tried setting up a Proxmox VM running Windows and mapping the Proton Drive client to a NAS file share (hoping all my devices could see that file share and sync to it, then Proton Drive would sync everything to their servers), but you can't map network drives apparently. RIP.

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atmur 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe try something like rclone instead, I think they added support for Proton Drive in one of the recent versions.

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root 1 point 2 years ago

I've heard of rclone, and did see that they support Proton Drive, but it's just hard for me to trust a translation layer like that. I know emulating their program is also not ideal.

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