Cryptomator is best for dirs and anything synced to the cloud. You can also use something like rclone, locally, but it’s more for remote backup of data. Veracrypt dirs are predefined in size, so it’s best to only use for full disk encryption, fixed archives, etc.

Password protection only means protection if the data behind it is encrypted with that password. In all other cases, the data should be considered compromised (visible/accessible) the moment anyone else has access to the hardware or software storing it.

So they can use it to dramatically expand data collection “to achieve 0 murders”, and before you know it everyone’s getting disappeared by the thought police.

but where’s the Proton Drive application for Linux!? … I sincerely hope Proton is working on it

It appears the author didn’t read the blog posts they linked:

“Over the next few months, we’ll enhance the app further by adding more new features and releasing the Software Development Kit (SDK) that the new macOS app is based on, which we anticipate will serve as the basis for a highly requested Linux app.”

It sounds like they haven’t even started. Hopefully the SDK covers most of the functionality and the Linux app is minimal additional effort.