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The icon looks a bit like a recycling symbol. This is not a good metaphor for cloud storage.

And no linux client.



No linux client turned me off of full adoption (especially when dropbox does support linux)


While Dropbox does support Linux, I could only get the client to work on the Ubuntu distro. Not saying that Google Drive is better (they don't even have a client), but that Dropbox Linux support is not so good.


I'm running it just peachy right now on Fedora 16 x86_64. Add a repo, install the package, and it bootstraps itself. It's quite clean.


`yaourt -S dropbox` on Arch Linux works fine :) Been using their linux client since 2008 or so, and I can't recall having any problems.


I haven't tried this, and it's a bit old, but: http://v3gard.com/2009/04/using-dropbox-on-slackware/

Seems like the general idea could be used on other distros.


I got it to work pretty easily on Centos.


Working great on Arch!


It shouldn't be complicated to write a FUSE client, should it?




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