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Yeah, exactly, I don't understand why they don't make "Photos" a folder in Google Drive and vice-versa. Subfolders can be albums, so when you upload something from your phone to G+ it also shows up on Google Drive, and when you drag a photo in your Photos folder it gets uploaded to your G+ account.

I don't really care that much, though, since there's no Drive client for linux (how hard can it be to port the thing?).

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There is a Drive client for linux: insync. I use it since more than a year and it works perfectly.

Oh hum, thanks for that. Does it use inotify/is light on resources?

It's actually pretty well done, I used to use it til I moved to ownCloud. Interestingly it's more stable than the official client on my Mac, on Ubuntu 12.04

It's nice that there's a third party option (yay for open APIs) but it's pretty weird that Google still hasn't bothered to make a Linux Drive client themselves. This is basically the only reason I'm still using Dropbox primarily, though I'll probably start moving some files to Drive when the bonus space I got from their college competition thing expires.

Do you know how it compares with fuse-google-drive?

>I care that much, though, since there's no Drive client for linux (how hard can it be to port the thing?).

Not hard, it has been available forever internally in Google. I guess the hard part is supporting it externally.

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