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Strange that data corruption [1] is not offered as one of the options :) [1] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedr...
Installing Linux distros these days is trivial, and i encourage anyone with a usb stick laying around to give them a try.
Cortana and Candy Crush is why I use switched to Ubuntu on every PC except one. That one autostarts Steam.
The list goes on and on and on. I cant blame their devs, i can see product management written all over these “features”.
The newer versions of Windows seem to care less and less about what the user prefers. This is emblematic in the message boxes that offer a choice between Yes and Not Now/Maybe Later. It takes real effort to make Windows accept a No.
I'm no dogmatic, soapbox-spewin' free software acolyte, but at this point using Windows just feels somehow degrading. It's like a bad night in Vegas. Like being trapped inside the Daily Mail. Thank God for all of you free software types, or I'd have nothing to boot instead!
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Just as a counterpoint, the same games run better for me on the Linux/proton side of the same hardware. Haven't had any real issues with non-steam games either on my Linux desktop or my steam deck. It's interesting to note how different the experience of different users is. Makes me curious what part of the stack is causing such massively divergent outcomes. Graphics driver? Window manager? Distro defaults? Tough iss…
So my only real experience with linux gaming is with SteamOS and Proton. A big example of a game that I had to jump through hoops (and just gave up and switched to Windows) was Kingdom Hearts. FF14 (not through Steam) was another example of a game that I got to work fairly well, but the steps to get it working was weird and meant I lost the syncing the real launcher had. However I do want to mention that I actually d…
Personally I've had way more trouble on the windows side, where the NVIDIA driver regularly breaks, causes wacky performance and screen tearing issues. There have been a few games where linux performance was notably worse, but mostly EA type things that eventually got fixed.
Microsoft, you should be better than this.
My 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…
My 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…
Something similar happened to my father-in-law. He called one day saying that every time he saved a file in Word, he couldn’t find it again later. It ended up being that either all his files were saving into OneDrive but the “Documents” shortcut in Explorer was the local directory, or vice versa. That was also my first experience with the god awful Save dialog in recent versions of Office.
You can’t just upend where something as critical as where someone’s files end up, especially not for non-technical users. It’s absurdly bad.
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Wow.... Also love the typical clueless response from the forum agent.
I haven't even clicked the link above yet, but I just know it's a green checkmarked Accepted answer post from a v-dash MSFT contractor, asking the OP to run `sfc /scannow`, and somehow "2+ people found this post helpful", while below it is a collapsed post with "2,536+ people found this post helpful" votes criticising the state of the MS Answers community. ...right? UPDATE: I read the thread, and was even more disapp…
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I haven't even clicked the link above yet, but I just know it's a green checkmarked Accepted answer post from a v-dash MSFT contractor, asking the OP to run `sfc /scannow`, and somehow "2+ people found this post helpful", while below it is a collapsed post with "2,536+ people found this post helpful" votes criticising the state of the MS Answers community. ...right? UPDATE: I read the thread, and was even more disapp…
The top reply sort of acknowledges home vs business (by noting that version history is intact there).