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Rclone will be our new best friend 
... or a different cloud provider.
not a bad idea
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Interesting. I didn't heard about that until now. It is sad when someone need that of Course. But I can understand the Reason. I mean when no one maintains the needed Packages and there are Security Issues with them ... it is not the best Situation.
I use dropbox
Not to pound a dead horse too much, but what is the end goal for Gnome? While I understand this is due to lack of maintainers of certain libraries... this is a feature of your desktop. As are many other features, which also rely on maintainers. You are the largest DE for all of Linux at this point (for better or worse).
How do you not see this and go "you know what, we aim for mostly enterprise markets, and a lot of those markets use google products. We should aim to implement this ourselves, so as to continue this service through our OS"? But instead you just axe it. I know they (fairly recently) implemented M365 support as well. I believe that also relies on SOME libraries that they themselves don't maintain. So just remove that support after a few versions as well?
I know there's plenty of options to implement these features outside of the OS itself. But if we're going to go ahead and argue that, then why bother with Gnome in the first place? And while that's definitely the way I lean, it's not how a lot of people view their OSs anymore.
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But here You have to be fair: When no one maintains the neccessary Packages and they are a Security Risk then it is understandable.
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Agreed, but I think the point @applecheeks37 was making is that - if this is a popular enterprise need - then GNOME should maintain critical packages rather than hoping someone in the community will, and then dropping it if they don't.
At this point, it seems GNOME drops more features and compatibility with every release than they gain. Some day they're going to offer little more than a generic RHEL, which has a very stripped down version of GNOME to remove any potential security weak points. That's justifiable for high-security devices used in the US DoD and other similar situations, but it doesn't make a good consumer DE.
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You're right, @applecheeks37 & @ditchingwin. It's so frustrating when this kind of thing happens because it can make it impossible to switch to Linux as your daily OS. The other thing that drives me nuts is when people say that there are other options, like your team, or your boss is going to accept or even understand that YOU are a special case, that YOU can't share company doc's, that ONLY YOU are so awkward that, well, why don't you find a job elsewhere?
Some workers must use things like MS Teams, Excel, Google Drive and other Google apps. It is unrealistic to say "well, there are alternatives" to these people because their livelyhoods, their salaries depend on being a part of a team, being an employee.... So, if Linux is ever going to replace Windows or Mac, then it HAS TO BE compatible, end of story. Gnome dropping support for G-Drive is bad news, and it's another reason not to use any Linux distro, like ZORIN - which is why we are here - which relies on Gnome. Your average Joe is not going to understand, or be bothered to learn, how to replace Gnome for something else.
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Some pointers to a way forward here?
Perhaps it is time Zorin should switch to KDE. Plasma 5.27.5 works really well on Zorin 18.