I am trying to get away from Google and am looking for a decent cloud service that’s integrated well into Linux, either by itself or by using rclone.
I tried Proton drive, but it is laggy and overall not very good.
I just need storage, nothing fancy. Self hosting is not an option tough, at this time.
EDIT: I don’t want to write the same answer 15 times, so I’ll just put this here: Thanks a lot for the recommendations to all of you! I’ve got some reading up to do now :-)
Can you elaborate? That “usually” is doing a lot of heavy lifting, I’ve never heard of this.
What is integrated? How do sync folders work? Does it support calendar syncing? Contacts? How do you browse the stuff stored on nextcloud after logging in?
I use the desktop client to sync files, and Merkuro via caldav to sync calendar events. For everything else I open nextcloud in firefox.
Edit: There is an Online Accounts section in my KDE settings. There is only an option for OpenDesktop.
I assume this can be expanded with additional software packages. Anyway, this is a KDE feature. Not “integrated into the distro”.
I can only speak to my experience. And in my experience pretty much every distro has this built in. I think its actually built into the DE.
I tried looking into the extent of the integration but there wasn’t a lot of information and I don’t use it for those things anyway but I’m pretty sure it at least does file sync, contacts and calendar.
KDE is part of the distro.
Sure. But a “distro” is a preset collection of software packages. Very nearly all of which are optional. What’s “integrated” doesn’t really tell anyone anything. The list of software can be anything. By this logic Steam is “integrated into the distro” on distros like Bazzite that have it pre-installed.
In comparison, it’s much more useful to tell people “KDE provides integration with this thing” because that allows people to instantly tell whether they can make use of that feature, based on whether they are running KDE, regardless of what distro they started off installing.
To enable the functionality, I installed the kaccounts-provider package just now. Trying it out, it seems to allow you to view the contents of your nextcloud account in the network section of Dolphin (though this doesn’t seem to actually work, likely due to my use of two factor auth on my instance). It also syncs contacts?
To access additional functionality, the desktop client is still required (though it too integrates nicely with Dolphin to the point you might not have realized it is separate software, if you had it pre-installed). It’s possible that the login process for it is even automated if you already have your account added in KDE settings.
Steam does not integrate into the calendar, contacts, filesystem, etc.
Except that it’s integrated…?
But it’s not, because it’s not limited to KDE. They pretty much all do.
And the software providing the calendar and contacts features can be uninstalled in the very same way steam can be. In fact the entire DE can be. What’s the distinction you’re making?
Ok, so say most DEs have the feature. It doesn’t make nextcloud any more centrally integrated than steam is.
I don’t understand what that has to do with anything. You can uninstall the entire DE if you want to.
One is integrated into the system and the other is not? I thought that was pretty clear…?
Steam is not integrated. At all.
What system? The DE?
A linux desktop install is a system of systems. Almost none of which are essential, all of which are interchangeable with other versions and options.
The nextcloud desktop client honestly integrates with “the filesystem” much more closely than the Online Account functionality of KDE. Is it part of “the distro”?
Really? Even on Bazzite, the distro that can replace SteamOS and all its handheld console functionality?
Steam is basically an entire DE in gaming mode.
The operating system?
The NextCloud app does not come packaged as part of “the distro” and is not integrated into the system settings, so obviously not.
Yes, really.
This argument is dumb. I’m done.