Google Drive is tedious as hell to use. The UI is utter garbage. Yes, eventually you can get it to do what you want but it is absolutely painful, especially with its background operations that are not reflected in the UI (e.g. you delete something large, it blocks you from deleting the seemingly empty shared drive until that background operation is done but doesn’t tell you why in the UI).
I feel like all file-like UIs suck. I hate Windows Explorer, Mac Finder, Nautilus Google Drive, OneDrive (yes I’m talking about both local and native file UIs but I dislike them all). Are there any that you consider good? Because I’d like to try it.
Locally I usually just use the terminal/CLI (on Linux), much more flexible and you can use scripts or specialized tools (like rsync or fdupes) for operations you need to perform repeatedly. GUIs just tend to be too slow and repetitive for my taste.
On the other hand Google Drive is still a lot better than that monstrosity you need to battle if you want to actually create API keys for any Google product so for my limited needs I usually just deal with using it every month or two when I really need to.
Google Drive is tedious as hell to use. The UI is utter garbage. Yes, eventually you can get it to do what you want but it is absolutely painful, especially with its background operations that are not reflected in the UI (e.g. you delete something large, it blocks you from deleting the seemingly empty shared drive until that background operation is done but doesn’t tell you why in the UI).
I feel like all file-like UIs suck. I hate Windows Explorer, Mac Finder, Nautilus Google Drive, OneDrive (yes I’m talking about both local and native file UIs but I dislike them all). Are there any that you consider good? Because I’d like to try it.
Locally I usually just use the terminal/CLI (on Linux), much more flexible and you can use scripts or specialized tools (like rsync or fdupes) for operations you need to perform repeatedly. GUIs just tend to be too slow and repetitive for my taste.
On the other hand Google Drive is still a lot better than that monstrosity you need to battle if you want to actually create API keys for any Google product so for my limited needs I usually just deal with using it every month or two when I really need to.