I feel like I’m missing something here, but there is not one whisper on Google about their VPN service plans with regards to Linux. Nothing about “no plans” or even a definitive “will not be supporting Linux”. Does anybody here have any idea if the GO VPN for desktop will be available for Linux or no?
Thank you 
Party on.
Don’t get your hopes up. Been waiting for an official Linux google drive app for years now.
I went on my Google One account today and chatted with a Google support person about this. Here’s what this person had to say: 1) Google One vpn currently supports only phones and the Mac or Windows 10+ desktop OSes. 2) Google is working on Linux desktop support. 3) This person advised me to submit feedback on my Google One homepage asking for this product, which I did.
Please help. All you have to do is:
Go to your google one dashboard
Bottom left click send feedback
Enter make support for linux apps such as google drive and one vpn
Click submit.
Thank you so much to everyone who has done this. This will make google aware of the current problem and make them more pressured to make the app.
If you have done this, please either comment down below or like this comment. All people who do this are legends and I would like to personally thank each and every one of you.
I’ve been thinking about this too. I’d really like to use the VPN with Linux. Could we do it via the Google Play Store, like we do on a Chromebook?
the google one vpn app is even a flutter app… it would take very little effor to port it over to linux
Honestly I gave up on Linux a bit a go because compenys just dont make apps for linux
yeah, i just gt the vpn on my google one account…have it on my phone and tablet but miss beeing able to use it on my linux desktop (fedora)
You can mount Google drive with the free rclone.
I’m proficient (nice resume word lol) with most linux distro’s but I use Ubuntu because it works and I don’t have to hack it into being…and all of the gdrive solutions eat my processor alive when copying a lot of data to google drive. It makes zero sense why, it’s just a secure file transfer mechanism right (says the non-programmer)?
we’re working on Linux support – hang tight!
- Google Drive developer, 2012
What is there to work on to just support wireguard?
From my experience, Google gives no indication that they read feedback. They never give any acknowledgement of reading my feedback, not even automated, and the same problems continue to exist long after I submit feedback about said problems. I even tried messaging/emailing their support recently, within the last few months, to which I got no response. So, there you go. I guess sending feedback to Google is better than doing nothing, when there is nothing else you can do, but who knows whether they actually read it and care. Maybe doing what you are sort of doing, and making somewhat of a social movement is something that you can do to sway Google. It might have to hit their ears/eyes through things like website/newpaper articles, or social media movements, because their feedback systems seem to redirect to /dev/null.
Same here on Mint and Ubuntu, I have 100GB of cloud storage immediately available to me so I have no idea why people are getting upset over an app when we have native mounted cloud drives from them? I am assuming it may not be available on Fedora or some other non Debian based distros.
I don’t even understand why Linux isn’t supported. Why do you need an app for VPN, any more than you need an extra app to talk over TCP/IP, SSH, or through proxy servers, which is essentially all a VPN is, from my understanding, with the requirement that it also be encrypted. Some Linux distributions (perhaps most/all; I don’t know) come with support for OpenVPN and the Point-To-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP). It would seem that I would just select one of those protocols and enter VPN server information, and off I would be running. Why is a Google app needed? Does Google have their own proprietary VPN protocol?
if it’s a flutter app then it’s not that they’re unable to make it, they’ve already made a linux app, they’re just ignoring us at this point
I use Mozilla’s VPN service for now…their app is pretty decent.
looks like their ‘forwarder’ project has some meat:
I am in your exact same position. I have it on my phone but I really want it on my fedora workstation. Come on google. Its not like the linux userbase it small. If you want to check out my post about this, go to: https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/12fyye1/google\_one\_vpn\_for\_linux/
I understand that, thanks I was asking about Google One VPN desktop client for Linux, not Google Drive.