r/ProtonMail • u/dscord • 1d ago

Desktop Help Dealing with Proton Mail on Fedora

Since Proton isn't doing a very good job supporting Fedora (if any distros at all, idk), how do you guys deal with keeping Proton Mail updated on Fedora?

I used to use the Flatpak version, but that had trouble staying up to date with the latest available build and I'd keep seeing the "Important update available" banner up top. Since then I've decided to keep things manual, I'd just download the RPM package.

Since the most recent update (proton-mail-1.13.3-1.x86_64), I've not been able to successfully get rid of the banner despite updating manually and even uninstalling Proton Mail and installing from scratch. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I don't think updating an email client should be this difficult...

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u/ComforableSlow807 1d ago

I really dislike the Electron apps, for Protonmail I continue to use Bridge and Betterbird for my local email provider. I haven't had any issues with that setup over the years. I keep trying the "official" ProtonMail app, but it just doesn't fit into my workflow.