Proton Drive Windows App is out!

That's great news! I'm a linux user myself, but I understand that's not a priority right now. Maybe it can be run with wine, might give it a try ...

I cannot wait for the Linux app
- Same, I won't be able to use Proton Drive until a Linux CLI is in place. Currently paying for Jottacloud for now along with my Proton subscription; their CLI tool is pretty good in Linux as far as I can tell.
- It looks like a linux app is at least planned (excerpt from their blog post):
You know, i actually did try it wine and it runs just fine BUT... the sync function doesn't actually work. IIRC its looking for some specific .dll when i tried running it via terminal. I've since gotten caught up in other things and haven't tried more things with it.

I installed it and already got a problem. Failed to sync folders error. Setting another folder to sync to did this. I uninstalled the app with the option to delete credentials but reinstalling it still remembers my account info. Error persists. Of course I reported it already

Excellent!

Finally! My body is ready!

Hopefully they add support for windows on arm

That will probably take a long time, unfortunately

Pricing is pretty high for business $10.99/month vs Google Workspace starter at $6/month (which has many more features). Maybe a cheaper drive-only plan would be a good option.

Google does not encrypt your files, AFAIK, and it’s not privacy-friendly.
- True, but they are at least hippa compliant - which is what matters for businesses I work with.
Pricing of an encrypted provider cannot be competitive with an unencrypted provider, as with encrypted storage, you're not always able to deduplicate or compress file in a way non-encrypted providers can.
Additionally, Proton has their main datacenter in Switzerland, with backup sites in Germany, which has a higher power, cooling and labors costs. Hence why pricing wise, a competition on prices from unencrypted storage providers won't ever work.

This would have been fantastic just a few months ago, but I’ve started to use a new MacBook much more frequently than expected, and it will be a while until a MacOs app is ready (maybe a year from now?).

I hoped I could use Proton Drive for Windows through a Windows VM for now, but at least for Paralells you’ll install Windows for ARM on Apple Silicon, which is not supported by Proton Drive yet.

Another issue for me is that I typically have all files for all use cases on the same account, and then I’ll selectively sync various work, personal, customer projects etc on different devices.

You can sort of selectively sync on Proton Drive by choosing folders to be automatically downloaded locally and not.

However, all folder and files names are still visible on every device, which I don’t want at all.

The Mac version is being developed. Please be patient, news will arrive here for sure!
Mac app is in beta at the moment.
- I’m not sure it should properly be called a beta when even vision users haven’t got access yet, but yes! Based on the timeline of the Windows beta that’s why I suggested a year - maybe in six months I’ll get an invite as a Vision user and six months later it will be ready for release?

Annoying that no ARM version is available, but it shouldn’t be any mayor issue in theory. There shouldn’t be any mayor issues with file API between architectures.