Hope you’re joking.
Indeed. However, Linux is, sorry to say, not relevant.
If you indeed work for Swisscom (and I hope you don’t) I’d take my buisness elsewhere. You make Swisscom soud like a silly little company. I’m pretty sure this is not what they want to be perceived as. I personally didn’t touch a Window machine in more than a decade, and as a user of both Mac hardware and Linux, I have enough alternative to myCloud to take my buisness elsewhere.
I find your answer very unprofessional.
Hobby-Nerd ohne wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeiten zur Swisscom
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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.
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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. 😉
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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
7 months later
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.
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