• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    4 months ago

    We asked for Linux native apps and collabrative office suites not this garbage.

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          It honestly probably has too many Linux developers. I’d love to develop for Linux, but the job market is super competitive, so I work building web apps (hosted on Linux). I have the skills to hack on Linux things (I build desktop Linux apps for fun), there just aren’t many job opportunities.

          If I could get paid something close to what I’m making now, but to work on FOSS, I’d do it in a heartbeat. But the options I see are:

          1. fight like crazy to get one of the handful of jobs
          2. get paid almost nothing
          3. not work in FOSS

          I don’t have the energy for 1 and 2 won’t work for my family, so I go for 3. I do plan to do 2 once I have enough to not need my current income (current projection is about 10 years).

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        4 months ago

        OK get Linux developers then. we pay for the Software and they asked us what we want them to work on. This is one of the rare cases where Linux users can actually feel entitled to developer attention.

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          4 months ago

          Except it’s cheaper to pay their existing non-Linux developers to do something than hire a team of new developers for Linux.

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          4 months ago

          You might be surprised to find out that, just like everywhere else, Linux users are a minority among the Proton userbase.

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            4 months ago

            I am just going based off the responses to their poll on their fourm.

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        4 months ago

        They need a simple GUI on top of rclone. The madlads of rclone fucking reversed engineered the drive APIs in record time. Now imagine if they were to tosh some money into that project, and then could focus only in GUI.

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        4 months ago

        Yes I am aware. Thats a great start but its pretty barebones and needs far more developement.