The unattended export needs to run as a daemon and potentially get involved on the security side (ie let you unlock the desktop even when not in front of the machine).

It mainly seems to me that Google really just doesn't care about the Linux desktop even though reports are half the employees using Goobuntu. Another example is Google Drive not being available for Linux.

This is not official, but if this is a pain point for you this might help: https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse

We solve the problem by paying over $1k/yr to Dropbox who are of the opinion that people do actually use Linux.

Of course then Dropbox mess up the multi-account thing badly even with the recent changes.

It might not be supported, but you can get it working perfectly well on Ubuntu and Arch.