One monopoly continues to single-handedly shit on personal computing for the whole species.
I'd wager that all tech monopolies do this
Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
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Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#22I wish I could understand why product managers come up with these ideas and developers implement them. Every release, Microsoft improves Windows in one way (like WSL) and then adds two reasons why it should be uninstalled completely. I use OneDrive on certain computers in my business. In others, it's inappropriate. On all my business computers, Xbox, Candy Crush, MSN etc. are inappropriate. And Edge was great for a w…
My integrity in regards to my job goes as far as not doing things that are illegal or straight up immoral, but other than that'll do pretty much whatever my boss wants me to. Something that's annoying but relatively harmless like this I wouldn't even bat an eye at. It's a pretty rough job market out there at the moment and I'm not looking to make any waves or get on anybody's radar by being difficult.
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#24My decision to just stick with Windows 10 LTS version for gaming is reinforced as a good decision on a fairly regular basis at this point.
My partner was on Windows 10 and was running into some issues with OneDrive. Apparently it just moved the entire user directory (or something like that) to OneDrive and most of his files were not local. We tried to disable OneDrive and his Desktop just disappeared.
We finally just got rid of it, but it was a pain and I don't think he ever turned it on. At least not purposefully.
Also please don't say to just use Proton and SteamOS for gaming. I have had enough issues with games not working under proton (Particularly if not from Steam) or updates breaking games on my Steam Deck that I also use Windows LTS on my Steam Deck most of the time now.
Edit: I remember what the problem was. he ran out of space. So the service that he didn't sign up for (at least purposefully) that synced his entire home directory stopped syncing because he ran out of space on it, and his files are basically being held hostage by OneDrive.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#25Now they must add another option: "I quit OneDrive because of this dialog!"
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#26This is just as annoying as Docker constantly asking me to rate it. This trend is just tacky.
Something asks me to rate them, they get a 0
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#27Installing Linux distros these days is trivial, and i encourage anyone with a usb stick laying around to give them a try.
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#28I've been trying to get rid of OneDrive for months now, but I haven't been successful. It's yet another thing that makes me really hate Microsoft products.
What happens when you go thru the uninstall process?
I've uninstalled OD on 100+ systems. It's always followed the pattern of other crapware; it goes away until the next major update.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#29Same as restarting a server. It is something that should be running all the time so turning it off points to something not working, and asking for a valid reason makes sense.
Nonsense. Windows Server is an OS that can be used for anything.
Besides, they're the only people making an OS that regularly needs to be restarted anyway.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#30Same as restarting a server. It is something that should be running all the time so turning it off points to something not working, and asking for a valid reason makes sense.
This line of thinking only makes sense if you actively use OneDrive. If you don’t and have no interest in using it why leave it running? It’s bad enough that they automatically bundle it into Windows, but intrusively forcing a user to explain why they are using their own hardware in a certain way is silly. I’m going to guess that the intersection of people who actively close unneeded background programs, and the user…
Is it even possible to run Windows anymore without a Microsoft account?
If you only have a local account, OneDrive has nothing to sync to, right?