Easy and fast cloud solution?

As much as I try to use open source solutions, Google Drive remains one of the best cloud solutions for me.
I say "easy and fast" because creating an account is fast, and has a lot of free storage (15 GB).

Is there an app as good as the Windows Google Drive app?
Or are there other cloud solutions I might have missed that are worth trying?

I'm specifically looking for a two way sync solution, not an "online only" option like KDE's KIO GDrive.

I came across Celeste, an open source app that seems awesome, but I noticed a bunch of negative reviews on its flatpak page.
https://github.com/hwittenborn/celeste
Has anyone used it?

Thanks in advance! Please mention me if you reply.

GitHub

GitHub - hwittenborn/celeste: GUI file synchronization client that ...

GUI file synchronization client that can sync with any cloud provider - hwittenborn/celeste

ΔδDD As much as I try to use open source solutions, Google Drive remains one of the b...

asen23•2/2/25, 4:24 PM

looks like it is just a rclone gui, you can try using it directly

Aasen23 looks like it is just a rclone gui, you can try using it directly

δDDOP•2/2/25, 4:49 PM

giacomo•2/2/25, 7:52 PM

to echo what asen23 suggested. you can try to set up the google cloud account with rclone, then creat a systemd mount for the share

Ggiacomo to echo what asen23 suggested. you can try to set up the google cloud account w...

δDDOP•2/2/25, 11:01 PM

I could, however I'm specifically looking for a GUI

δDDOP•2/2/25, 11:01 PM

I did look up rclone however

δDDOP•2/2/25, 11:01 PM

and found this

δDDOP•2/2/25, 11:01 PM

https://rcloneui.com/

Rclone UI — The desktop GUI for rclone & S3

Rclone UI is the easiest way to use rclone on Windows, Mac and Linux! Open Source and written in Rust. Mount buckets from S3, Backblaze, and more...

δDDOP•2/2/25, 11:03 PM

claims to be open source, but the website is very empty

Cm4nXD•2/4/25, 8:09 AM

I quite like the built in support for google drive included in gnome. It mounts and shows everything in nautilus

ΔδDD As much as I try to use open source solutions, Google Drive remains one of the b...

jollins•3/17/25, 6:40 PM

this GUI does work fine from my experience. Seems like a decent app. It will throw an error about "unable to view contents" when you set a file mapping, but syncing does function

Jjollins this GUI does work fine from my experience. Seems like a decent app. It will thr...

δDDOP•3/17/25, 6:44 PM

from my experience

which cloud service?

I tried google drive and google just gives me a useless error…

ΔδDD > from my experience which cloud service? I tried google drive and google jus...

jollins•3/17/25, 6:47 PM

I was using it just now actually, so 2-way sync did work for me. The error is useless when you set a local dir <-> gdrive dir mapping. If you place files in either location with Celeste running, it should work. Note that with GDrive, the files have to be your own not shared with you

δDDOP•3/17/25, 6:49 PM

I will try again soon, is it ok if I share screenshots? @jollins

tulip•3/18/25, 1:02 AM

@DD (ping when you reply) just use rclone directly

tulip•3/18/25, 1:02 AM

its the backend for celeste and its pretty damn nice

ΔδDD I will try again soon, is it ok if I share screenshots? @jollins

jollins•3/18/25, 3:00 AM

For sure

Ttulip @DD (ping when you reply) just use rclone directly

δDDOP•3/18/25, 1:23 PM

did you create a client ID?

ΔδDD did you create a client ID?

tulip•3/18/25, 1:39 PM

nope

δDDOP•7/3/25, 1:07 PM

(finally have the time to come back to this)

δDDOP•7/3/25, 1:07 PM

using rclone

δDDOP•7/3/25, 1:08 PM

using celeste

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1173744369799532564/1390318903003058308/Screenshot_20250703_150553.png?ex=6867d2e1&is=68668161&hm=973f3d35f8f73a23e660b766c0477e787492b9276e9af1028ec7f6f5b1659c12&

δDDOP•7/3/25, 1:09 PM

whether I use rclone directly (installed with

brew

brew

), or the celeste flatpak, I get a google error

it was like this months ago as well

@jollins @tulip do you have any idea why this happens? thanks (and sorry for taking a while)

δDDOP•7/3/25, 1:39 PM

oh, it worked on a chromium browser...

δDDOP•7/3/25, 1:39 PM

i wonder why it doesn't work on a firefox browser :(

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