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As a Google employee, you almost never need to store anything on Drive, do you? I'm struggling to think of a "sync my files" workflow where corp Drive would have been the best solution if only there had been a Linux client.

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If you needed to share files outside of code or what have you, you would have to use Google Drive. Perhaps not all developers wind up needing this very often. But realistically, for me, the majority of the benefit would’ve been integration. I’m sorry, but browsing files in a web browser absolutely sucks. Even if double clicking a document only opened Google Docs, that would still be a usability win.

At my current workplace I use a FUSE driver to get Google Drive in my file browser and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

As a Google employee using Linux, the kind of files I stored in Drive were rarely useful synced to my filesystem.

To be clear, I would’ve preferred something more like a FUSE implementation, which thankfully exists for someone outside of Google.

There is FileStream or whatever it’s called, but it’s never coming to Linux so who cares.

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