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I can think of lots of reasons not to use it, but dropbox does what you want including shell integration it's pretty much identical to onedrive on windows (in mint anyway, so i assume ubuntu as well)
My problem with dropbox was it only has the one folder it "syncs".
I was using Google drive on windows before the switch and I could tell it to sync any random folder on my computer, on any of the 7 drives... The Linux client for dropbox wouldn't let me do that and I had more stuff I wanted backed up than fit on my main drive.
The best alternative I have found was kDrive by infomaniak. Servers are in Switzerland, so it takes a bit to upload the initial sync when it's as big as I needed, but the day to day syncing changes is not noticeable. Linux client is great, and it's an appimage (I believe?) so it should be pretty much the same on any Linux distro.
Oh there's a long list of reasons to not use it. I use jottacloud with rsync personally. Dropbox does however provide that basic integrated functionality in a noob friendly way.
I forgot about Dropbox... I do have an account but yeah they are a bit too much, in the way these days.