One redditor asked about it on the most recent AMA:
Hi, is there a plan to release protondrive for linux?
Proton CEO’s answer:
We’re currently looking at options for how to fund this. It’s an expensive development because Linux has so many different flavors and we need deep integration with the filesystem, and it is not yet clear if there are enough Linux users that would allow us to offset the cost of this development. Like many things Linux, it may eventually just have to subsidized from Proton’s reserve budget. That doesn’t mean it won’t get done, it will just take longer since we are also subsidizing several other efforts at this time, such as the Proton VPN free servers for elections campaign: https://protonvpn.com/blog/free-servers-before-elections
-Andy
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1ff211y/comment/lmrdepr
Seems like they would first look if there is enough money and enough users to make it worthwhile, and then go looking for developers.
Don’t get me wrong, i have been a paying client for many years and really love the products and the company, but everything they say about linux… I don’t know, this just sounds like an excuse to continue to prioritize other things and get the linux users off their backs for a while longer.
Not sure what’s the chicken and what’s the egg here but maybe they didn’t know how much work would have to be done and thus how much money it would cost.
But it’s all just speculation and neither am I trying to defend them nor do I have a use case for this particular feature. I just wanted to interject a different possible scenario.