Proton Drive for Linux
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Details
- External ID
- 50003545
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Proton Drive for Linux
- Website domain
- lsantos.dev
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 120
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.93
- Tags
- —
Description
Hello everyone, I wanted to share this small project that I have. It's born out of a necessity that I had, because Proton doesn't ship a Linux version of the drive yet (it's apparently coming out later this year but who knows?) and all the current solutions are hacky and wonky at best. But for the time being I really needed to mount my Proton drive on my Linux machine the way I mounted it on my Mac, so I (and my faithful AI slave) did this small utility that allows you to mount your Proton Drive in a FUSE FS like if it is a local folder.It's fully written in Go because Proton's drive SDK and API libs are all in Go, and there's a community project on top of the reverse engineered proton API there too. I am not a Go developer, I know the foundations, so of course I used AI quite a lot, I am not super proud of it, but I am using it daily and testing it myself for a few months before releasing here.Hope you like it, feedbacks are welcome, just please be mindful of the person on the other side :)
Enrichment
- Niche
- cloud storage and backup management tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- cloud storage client for linux users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The client daemon relies on low-level Linux FUSE filesystem mechanics, POSIX compliance edge-cases, and reverse-engineering or integrating with Proton's end-to-end encrypted API protocols.
What it would actually take: Building this requires systems programming in Rust or Go interfacing with `libfuse`/FUSE kernel modules, alongside an implementation of Proton's client-side PGP/cryptographic protocols. The hardest parts are handling FUSE concurrency, lazy byte-range downloads, cache invalidation from push event streams, and POSIX file lock/buffer semantics without corrupting data during network dropouts.
Discussion
10 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Proton Drive CLI, rclone
Concerns raised: security risks of trusting data to vibe-coded third-party tools, redundancy with official Proton Drive CLI, lack of differentiation from rclone, reinventing existing tools with AI
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