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If it's part of the OS, it's probably not cross-platform... I still use Dropbox because it runs everywhere: NAS, Windows, Mac and my phone.

(At work we use Google Drive, it it just sucks. File Stream is super buggy and the web UI lacks a lot of productivity features.)

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Drive / File Stream is like the late 90's Norton antivirus of syncing apps. I can't believe how much it slowed down my wife's 3 year old laptop.

Unfortunately Dropbox recently dropped support for certain Linux file systems like XFS, BTRFS, etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17732912

And lost me as a customer for it.

Effectively Dropbox is no longer the universal solution guaranteed to work everywhere, which was the reason I chose them before. They deliberately killed off their unique selling point.

These days I run Nextcloud on iOS, Windows and Linux and it doesn't complain about ZFS.

For what it's worth, Dropbox recently added support for those file systems: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Desktop-client-builds/Beta-B...

Make that re-added after pointlessly, explicitly and intentionally breaking setups which people/customers relied on and which had been working flawlessly for years.

That lost them a shit-ton of goodwill. Too little, too late.

I stopped using it because I run an old computer on Mac 10.6.8 for development purposes, and I'd been using Dropbox as my communications protocol. It stopped supporting 10.6 and I stopped supporting it. Mind you, it'd been losing favor with me for changing the interface around and adding annoying stuff: the github desktop app has been doing similar things after being acquired by Microsoft, so I anticipate one day moving to full terminal git no matter how cumbersome that might be, just to get away from the 'helpfulness'.

Same here. I moved up to Mountain Lion about a year ago (yeah, I know, but I have good reasons for using old Apple operating systems) and then Dropbox stopped supporting Mountain Lion. Which does not mean that the product stops getting updated. It means THE PRODUCT STOPS WORKING. There was no good technical reason for this; it was just arbitrary Dropbox fuckery. Yet another reason I'm leaving.

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