[tambourine_man]

Use rclone and be happy.

Seriously, I haven't tried Google Drive for Desktop but I won't even bother, given their track record.

Rclone is simply amazing, the developers are responsive, it supports every backend on the planet. It's a single lightweight binary written in Go, runs on Linux, Mac, Win, x86 and ARM, every feature you could ever need, thoroughly documented… oh, and open source. I mean, what else could one want?

[hamandcheese]

Looking at the rclone feature set, it’s not clear if it provides a daemon to continuously synchronize a folder. I imagine that this is high up on the list of what “normal users” care about.

For power users, though, rclone does look quite nice.

[tambourine_man]

It doesn't.

But you can set a script to sync it periodically and it allows you to mount any remote as a network drive.

But of course, this is HN, a target audience that's generally to be able to use a command line tool and write a simple script.

I wouldn't recommend it on a regular users forum.

[lostmsu]

Syncthing is a better alternative.