Where's the Linux preferences GUI? The CLI doesn't work.

Question

The title says it all. While setting up a fresh laptop with EndeavourOS, I was able to load the UI from an older installation for a moment until it closed itself. This usually happens when the app is running a self update, and given this was a 2 week old backup, this makes sense.
Upon loading it up, the Preferences option now loads up a window with the following:

Why? Why was the old preferences UI removed in favor of this? This isn't an upgrade in the slightest, and clicking&nbsp;More Settings simply takes me to the CLI instructions page. While this is okay for me, it isn't okay for my family who is making the switch over and are not terminal warriors. Well, that would be the case if the terminal command even worked right:

So, I really do have to ask: what is going on here and how can I have my older, at least functional, GUI back?

Megan · Answer

Hey Flame Soulis, thanks for posting here today!
I'm wondering if the behavior you noticed earlier was because you used our beta version (221.3) instead of our stable one.&nbsp;
Just to make sure we're aligned here. It looks like that second window is what you were looking for, right? You don't seem to have any issues with that. Feel free to correct me, if I'm wrong.&nbsp;
Let me know more, and we'll take it from there.

RyanFromDropbox · Answer

Hi Flame Soulis,&nbsp;
I'm on the Product team at Dropbox -- thank you for reaching out!
We're in the process of rolling out changes to our Linux application, which include simplifying portions of the interface and migrating certain preference options (e.g., Selective Sync) over to a CLI-only interaction.
Right now, this is only rolled out to Beta users; and it looks like you're currently on a Beta build, which explains the recent change in your UI.&nbsp;
Given this change, I want to help troubleshoot the CLI issue you're having -- and make sure it's working as expected.&nbsp;
It looks like the dropbox command on your system might not be pointing to the expected Dropbox CLI tool at /usr/bin/dropbox. That could explain the behavior you're seeing.
Can you please try running the CLI directly like this: /usr/bin/dropbox help?
That should give you the correct help output -- let me know if that works!&nbsp;
Cheers,
Ryan

Flame Soulis · Answer

Good evening, Ryan!The issue is that I didn't download or install the beta build on the Ubuntu laptop, so if this was for beta only, it appears to have somehow become part of the release.Either way, here is the output of /usr/bin/dropbox helpGranted, this is on the EndeavourOS laptop I use, and not the Ubuntu laptop. The Arch setup bases the installation from the&nbsp;.dropbox-dist tarball archive for the releases, and copies it to&nbsp;/opt/dropbox. The dropbox binary is then linked to&nbsp;/usr/bin/dropbox.The AUR noted it was based on 214. I manually updated it to 220.4.4126 with the same process, which produced the results above. The&nbsp;.dropbox-dist folder had writing permissions removed to prevent the automatic update to 221.3. If you feel this will hurt testing, let me know and I can let it perform the automatic updates.Because I understand that Arch is not one of the supported distributions, I will be reviewing the Ubuntu 24.04 laptop once I get home and repeat for the sake of brevity, as that was set up from the DEB packages from the website. Despite that, it also updated itself to 221.3.

Rich · Answer

Flame Soulis wrote:
Despite that, it also updated itself to 221.3.

Do you have Early Releases enabled in your account settings?

Flame Soulis · Answer

And just in case, I decided to force the system to prevent loading any updates, and this is the older UI that shows up from v214.So, what's the big deal with the removal of this window?