The positive facts are: Mega fully supports Linux distributions and provides full encryption. User Darroch here promoted Mega and I had a look at it but I am not fully convinced - Paypal severed its relationship with Mega in 2015, the founder of Mega is now warning users against it, some cloud "experts" such as write that concerns about the survivability of Mega are "reasonable" on a more technical side, incremental syncing is not supported by Mega and synced files have to be wholly uploaded whenever they are changed. However, Google Drive is a very poor option for Linux users and it gives me the impression of getting trapped in the Google world of interconnected apps. If the functionality of Dropbox for free users should still shrink, I'll have to move to another cloud or subscribe to a 2TB Dropbox plan, which is way too much for me. I disagree from user Nyarlathotep: to my knowledge, Dropbox never ended support for Linux, they cut down Linux sync support to ext4 filesystems in 2018 but brought it back to ZFS, XFS, Btrfs And eCryptFS in July 2019. ![]() It works smoothly on Linux (I have presently two Mints and a Lubuntu installed) and regularly upgrades. I especially like the possibility of falling back to previous versions of the saved files (from the website). They recently limited free users to three devices. Installation was very smooth in both Mint Cinnamon and Mate. I gradually reached a free store limit of 16.5 GB, which is more than enough for me, because I use ext. I've been using it for several years and recommended it to friends and relatives.
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