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The app runs relatively well under Wine. However, I would only recommend this option if you are already familiar with Wine. Because the installation is relatively complicated.
I examined the app. It runs with an Electron frontend and a Spring Boot backend. Porting would therefore be possible with relatively minimal effort. But I wouldn’t rely on it.
Do I really need to mention that my posts were intended ironically? I would have liked a little more humor and imagination. However.
Our routers run on Linux and I am well aware of the importance of Linux in IT. But it must also be clear that Linux de facto does not exist on the desktop. There is Windows and a little (more) MacOS.
And hopefully the topic is now over and my dear colleagues who look after the forum don’t have to receive a complaint email every week about the crazy person who doesn’t even know Linux. 😉
I find the answer a little succinct. In fact, a lot of people use Linux as their operating system. The advantages are obvious, especially when it comes to security, but I don’t want to advertise here; swisscom should be technically able to offer a corresponding client. MEGA (NZ), for example, has solved this comfortably.
What does your statement “many people use Linux as their operating system” refer to? This may be around 1.5% of all desktop operating systems worldwide, but probably less in Switzerland. Now break this number down to Swisscom customers, and you’re somewhere around 20,000 Linux users (serious installations that are really being worked with seriously will probably be massively fewer. And how many of them really want to install and need myCloud? 200, maybe 300 people)?
That’s probably why the statement that Linux is not relevant. And of course, from a technical point of view, that would definitely be possible. But it also has to be worth it (i.e. it has to be worth it, i.e. it has to generate money somehow).
Thomas
Swisscom operates another cloud storage service for business, called Storebox. I don’t know whether the technology behind it is identical, but there is definitely a Linux client for this service. Is it somehow interesting that there was enough demand?
Swisscom seems to have the know-how; it would be nice if they thought about a Linux client for myCloud.
This would definitely be an argument to survive against the powerful competition.
Where? I am always honest and transparent here. It may not please everyone, but that’s how it is. There will be no Linux client for myCloud. There is simply no relationship between effort and return. That’s just how it is.
But I’ll discuss with my team whether we can support a developer community that develops its own Linux client. #just an idea I don’t know if that’s possible.
GG
Hello everyone,
Unfortunately, the proportion and number of Linux users is too small to justify developing and supporting your own Linux client.
We are about to launch WebDav as part of the myCloud Pro Edition. As a participant in the insider program you can do it now test for free.
There are various sync programs that support webdav (e.g. Anysync or GoodSync).
Does that help?
Best regards
Silvan
Hey, @SilvanG9 thanks for the great message. And above all, thank you for your professional answer. There are companies (especially in IT) that work exclusively with Linux and it’s not cool as long-time Swisscom customers to feel ridiculed for it.
The fact that the effort/return cannot be correct is a very fair statement, but as this was communicated by @Anonymous it was definitely (to express myself politically correctly) not good.
Best regards