[Discuss] Cloud Apps for Linux

John Blomfield jabfield at shaw.ca
Mon May 2 14:02:21 PDT 2016


In an earlier email I asked if anyone had any experience with Mega or 
any other Cloud service, as an alternative to Dropbox, which I have been 
using now for a number of years. Nobody answered so I didn't follow up 
but recently I have become more dissatisfied with Dropbox support for my 
distro opensuse 13.2 and Leap 42.1. Linux support by Cloud services is 
in general pretty poor with support limited to Ubuntu / Debian / Fedora. 
However I investigated some recommend on the net

https://www.maketecheasier.com/dropbox-alternatives-for-linux/

I liked SpiderOak but then realised the "Free" was a 60 day trial.
I found PCloud a confusing interface on the Web and its desktop client 
has only a deb no rpm or source.
Copy.com is shutting down.

I have therefore ended up with Mega that has lots of Linux support a 
very easy to use client and Web interface and 50GB storage free. Not 
that I need more than 1GB since I don't share photos and videos etc. My 
only hesitation is with the involvement by the originator Kim Dotcom but 
he may not still be involved with Mega?

Anyone have any further advise? (I individually encrypt any sensitive 
files before I upload them.)

John

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