The Google Drive desktop app has still not been released for Linux, but that’s not to say you can’t use Google Drive on Linux. For starters, you can always access Google Drive through a browser. Ubuntu, specifically, has some native Google Drive integration too. Ubuntu and most of its flavors include the Online Accounts feature that lets you connect and sync your Google Drive without installing anything extra. Use Online Accounts Sign-On As stated, the Online Accounts sign-on framework lets you connect to various online services, including Google Drive. It should be preinstalled on Ubuntu, but if required, you can also manually install it with sudo apt update && sudo apt install gnome-online-accounts Search and open ‘online accounts’ from the Activities overview and click on Google. Login with your google account to authenticate the framework. Scroll down and press Allow to provide access to your file manager. Confirm the type of items you want to sync and close the window. You should now be able to access the mounted google drive directory from your file explorer. You can repeat these steps if you want to mount further Google Drive accounts. Alternatives to Integrated Google Drive This native method of accessing and syncing Google Drive is convenient, but often, many changes are slow to sync, or may not sync at all. There are some third-party alternatives like Rclone, ocamlfuse, Insync, etc. The problem with these is that their user experience has been quite varied. They’ve worked smoothly for some users, while others have been plagued with problems (slow syncs, no sync, files being duplicated or deleted when syncing, etc.). Due to this, we recommend trying out the built-in Google Drive access method which we showed earlier first. If that doesn’t work for you, then you can try out third-party alternatives.