I noticed today that Gnome will be disabling the ability to view your Google Drive via Nautilus once they move to Gnome 50. This is because the libgdata has become deprecated because it is unmaintained.
Yo can used rclone to mount your google drive.
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Completely understandable, but still little bit of nuisance. Luckily there’s rclone, though. 
And of course writer of the article had to tell us that modern Gnome sucks. Because reasons.
The writer didn’t tell anyone that modern GNOME sucks directly. The writer only mentioned that GNOME team “killed the traditional desktop metaphor” by removing a bunch of useful stuff. You are just insinuating that’s what the writer is saying by using this statement, and by (you and I) adding the fact that you have to use buggy unsupported extensions that break with every other major release in a sometimes futile attempt to get the traditional desktop back. Or, it could be that the use of modern GNOME seems to turn off a lot of new (and old) Linux users because it’s completely different than what they are used to and seems to make things that should be easy to do, or should work, difficult for no reason?
So GNOME 50 basically gives users another reason to stay away from GNOME? 
No! Don’t tell them before they have fallen into Gnome Kingdom! Then there’s only one way!
Ps. Totally not a Gnome
I can’t speak for Gnome (especially the trouble I have gotten in with them), but IMHO this is less about Gnome and more about the fact that they were depending on an external library (libgdata) to support the functionality. A library that was unmaintained for 4 years. And Gnome did not even decide that maybe they should do an internal re-write (but just call out that someone should take over the project). I don’t know about you all, but most people pick up responsibility for something and then slowly lose interest. So something so useful as connecting to your cloud storage seems to be very useful (knowing Microsoft + Google + Apple are what most normal people use because of their devices).
I also mentioned this here because I did not see the big Youtubers (e.g. Nick from the Linux Experiment) did not mention this feature being dropped. Many Youtubers just regurgitate what the press release mentions.
I will definitely configure Rclone to have this functionality in Gnome for now. But I hope Cosmic has a good year so I can eventually move there. In my personal case I could move to KDE. But then I have 6 friends and family all on Gnome and I support them. And really I need something simple for the normie in my life.
I wonder if Canonical has something implemented for replacement, because this has been available on Ubuntu also.
I won’t say Gnome sucks. I would say I question the management choices of Gnome Project Management. The fact that KDE is the tuners desktop and so many distros use it as their primary are telling. I would further say that many people want to jump away from Gnome (and why Cosmic has gotten so much attention).
Like many I am in the bucket where I like things to just work. Google services are important to me as I use calendar, contacts, mail and some Google Drive functionality as I work on my 3 laptops + 1 Android phone.
We will have to see if Cosmic Account Management gets a production release. I really would like to see feature parity before I move to Cosmic.
This is literally me also. I have been using Garuda with Plasma lately and remembered quite fast why I like Gnome better. There’s nothing wrong with Plasma, but on laptop I find Gnome more suited for me.
Edit. Minus two laptops and that I don’t do my work with laptop. 
In the back of my mind, I just wonder if there are people who just don’t want us using closed source things like Google Products. I technically use Google Drive so I don’t have to plug usb keys into my machines when sharing files. In general I have been disappointed using cloud storage because it is very slow for free options.
I also have this concern about so many people donating their time in these projects unpaid. With the way of the world and security, think we need to take more steps to real integration and better management (I would actual pay a reasonable annual fee for a secure desktop). Pretty gutsy that System 76 builds a whole new desktop after struggling to work with Gnome.
I am thinking Linux is great for hobbiest. But if I was not a technical person my family members would still be on Windows (or switch to MacOS). The sad part, so I am at my brothers house and have my little 2018 Macbook Air which I read and do research on. My brother has one of the new Macbook M4 Pros and we are working side by side. I am showing him all these tools I test with, how I am writing in tech notes in Obsidian and how I just do my thing. Then I do a 3 finger swipe to move between my applications (no minimizing). Totally surprises him what Gnome and other Linux desktops can do so seamlessly with a virtual desktop. People outside the hobby hardly understand how different their computer experience could be. That is something worth protecting. Why what happened with Google Drive integration is kind of a lesson that we should not take things or people for granted. Most of you know what the world might be like if we only had Microsoft and Apple.
Old me would have a desktop. But ever since I got a dock +8 years ago, well I dock in for my keyboard and 2 monitors. And other times I might be with friends and family where I might pull out the Linux Macbook Air to look up something. I try not to get stuck in front of my computer. But instead spend more time with people. I have not quite lost my tinkering bug (why I like testing Cosmic and other products and filing bugs on my free time).
If I buy a modern Macbook, I will likely no longer need to dual boot with Windows 11. But then this is because I do my yearly taxes on Windows. I refuse to use a Web based taxed software for security reasons. But still waiting for Asashi Linux to make that move too.
The big YouTubers mean well, but they really don’t have much of a clue about stuff like this because they haven’t been using Linux long enough to catch on. As for moving to Plasma to “solve” this issue, I hate to tell you, but Plasma doesn’t have (reliable) built-in support for this either. You will need to use Rclone with Plasma also.
KDE (Plasma) is not “the tuners desktop.” Even though it’s been around a little longer than GNOME and was the original default for a lot of distributions. When they both started out, they both had near identical feature sets. In fact, GNOME 1.x through 2.3 had slightly more features than KDE and was highly customizable. However, after 2.3, the GNOME development team started to “simplify” GNOME by removing or hiding a lot of desktop and application features, and by giving their core applications ridiculously simple names. A lot of the features that were removed were restored through the use of extensions, which, IMO, makes GNOME a lot more convoluted than KDE ever was. However, the GNOME team started playing chicken with extension developers by removing or changing parts of the GNOME shell that made some extensions work on every other point release.
By contrast, the KDE team has only removed features that were depreciated, and added newer features to keep up with modern OS/hardware development. IMO, the reasons that KDE Plasma has started to gain steam again (pun intended) as the default for distributions have to do with extensions, vision, and gaming. With KDE Plasma, distributions don’t need to rely on unsupported extensions, or make extensions on their own that will constantly be broken by the desktop’s development team, in order to support basic desktop functions, since those functions are already built-in to Plasma. Distributions don’t have to worry about the KDE Plasma team forcing their vision of how the desktop should function on them, as the KDE Plasma team listens to their users and tries to support their users needs. Lastly, all of the hype towards Linux lately has been with gaming, since Valve improved Proton to support even more Windows games and released the wildly popular Steam Deck. Valve chose KDE Plasma as desktop for SteamOS, and worked closely with the KDE team to ensure that Plasma had a lot of built-in support for modern gaming. Most of the other gaming focused distributions started to hop on the Steam Deck/SteamOS bandwagon and switch to or use KDE Plasma as their desktop also.
This, along with Valve choosing KDE Plasma as the default for SteamOS and Fedora promoting KDE Plasma to flagship status, was one of the canary in the coal mine for me when it came to GNOME losing it’s luster. Unfortunately, it wasn’t that hard for me to believe that the GNOME team would be so bold as to insinuate to a distribution developer that GNOME’s vision was more important than the distribution’s vision, since the GNOME team has been doing this to normal users for over a decade.
IMO, Linux is a lot easier to use than both Windows and MacOS, and is definitely a lot easier to maintain than Windows. The hardest part about Linux is configuring it to work 100% correctly on your computer. You usually can get 90-95% of stuff to work automatically with the Linux install, but the other 5-10% will take some tinkering after the install. The same can be said if you were to install Windows yourself on new hardware, but the manufacturers usually do this for you.
Was there ever a need to get a reason to stay away?
Why doesnt Google pick up the slack and develop an open source library to give access to Google Drive? They can maintain and do the upkeep too.
OR
They can contribute to the portion of libgdata which handles the Google drive integration. That ought to work.