What does HackerNews think of maestral?

Open-source Dropbox client for macOS and Linux

Language: Python

#72 in Linux
#50 in macOS
#102 in Python
Expected changes with Dropbox for macOS | Feb 2023
Worth mention the open source project Maestral: https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral

(an unofficial Dropbox client)

Broccoli: Syncing faster by syncing less (2020) | Dec 2021
And yet the Mac client still wakes up whenever I touch files outside my Dropbox folder, and has become a monstrosity full of “UX” I never use (so I switched to other things, and most of my friends to https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral).
Nine Raspberry Pis power this entire office | Oct 2021
If you still haven't found a use for them: they make for good low-power, always-on, headless networked servers for processing-light tasks.

Other commentators mentioned pihole/DNS, WireGuard, and music streaming, but you can also use them for a (slow) NFS server, persistent Syncthing node, Maestral host[1] (third-party Dropbox client written in Python (that can actually run on the Raspberry Pi, unlike the official Dropbox client)), or device that maintains a connection to a distributed network (e.g. Hyporborea/cjdns).

[1] https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral

How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS | May 2021
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Maestral (https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral) is a pretty light-weight Dropbox client that works well for mac
Asynchronous Task Scheduling at Dropbox | Nov 2020
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I don't know, I think it's pretty great. Can't live without it.

The client's UI is a bit odd, but at the end of the day it's really good at what it's supposed to do: Syncing files.

Performance is also great: I'm using multiple machines to write code on, and I keep my local git repo on Dropbox. I can literally save a change on my notebook and run it on some other machine 3 seconds later.

On Mac and Linux you might want to check out maestral (https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral), a third-party client that works really well.