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KDE connect works great with Linux. You can easily put stuff on and get stuff off your phone.

Syncthing!

KDE Connect. You need to be in the same network. But it's clearly the easiest and most useful.

KDE Connect has an app for Gnome too (GS Connect) so lots of flavours of Linux can join in. Brilliant way to sync your phone to your PC in every way.

There are already mentions of LocalSend (i use it for smaller stuff), Syncthing (for keeping folders synchronized, i use it to keep Wine prefixes between my Pc and my Steam Deck up to date) and KdeConnect (I use it for Clipboard sharing); I also use Copyparty, which runs on everything that allows python to run (so pretty much everything) and handles everything from single files to folders, up- and download, drag&drop support, serving mediafiles and so on, with lots and lots of features. give it a try!

https://pairdrop.net/

You can also self host it: https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop

I use Signal's "note to self" conversation. Since you can install the desktop version of Signal on basically any OS, it is almost perfectly cross-platform.

I use Syncthing for this; it syncs directories on my phone and computer, so to put something on my computer from my phone I just put it in that directory. I share my camera roll so my pictures are synced with my computer.

If you just want a "send this file" application, warpinator might do that.

Localsend has been really well considered. Only wish is that it recognized links and opened them in a browser automatically

Syncthing or Resilio Sync for regular, instant, no-fuss between devices you control.

I use Syncthing-Fork in my phone (has more flexible sybc conditions) to keep specific folders in sync.

I use Resilio Sync on my file server just for the Selective Sync feature, which enables me to easily grab any file from the server from anywhere.

Maybe a little off the beaten track. I use samba shares on a server, and "Total Commander" on my phone / tablet with the smb extension, so I can easily copy stuff back and forth.

Kde connect works good, but https://pairdrop.net/ may be helpful.

I usually just use email.

I use Warpinator. Comes standard on Linux Mint and is available for Android and most other OSes, I think.

I sometimes use element or signal to do that for small files, like pdfs and whatnot. I upload the file to my private chatroom and download from whatever device I need it on.

Sending files over bluetooth

SMB share on your router, attached to an M.2 SSD in a USB enclosure.

Or Localsend app/program, shares well over the same WiFi.

I use total commander (for Android) it has various features to send files between devices. Works really well if you have SFTP set up on your computer, but it has other options.

It's also possible to connect phones together with a USBC cable and do it that way too.

I find the scp command to be extraordinarily powerful for never having been taught anything about it in school.

Microsoft has Phone Link for both iOS and Android

Google has Quick Share for Android.

Magic wormhole.

i usually get some hate for this, but i have a samba share on my desktop, which i can access from home network. i use a wake on lan app to wake up the desktop when i need to access the share

i know its terrible for many reasons but i just use telegram for this..

If I'm out in public and needing to send or receive something on the fly and not go through the process of convincing someone to download an app they likely won't download I'll use Send it has come in handy in a pinch. I typically use Localsend as well but have never been able to get it to work on GOS devices.

File share on a NAS and “save to files” under the share menu on iOS. Also the venerable “send yourself an email” if the file is small enough

I used androidftp.

https://github.com/9001/copyparty

PushBullet

If your PC has bluetooth: The default file share that comes up when you hit the share button can use bluetooth. Just set the PC to receive a file.

All of these wonderfully nerdy, techy and complicated answers

I just use Whatsapp on the phone, and Whatsapp Web in a browser tab.

Send files, text or images/screenshots

It would probably work as well work signal, but the folks I need to communicate with are all in Whatsapp so....

X-plore file manager.