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No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
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Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#62May i suggest some solutions? :-P -> https://endof10.org/ (it has a map with people who can help install Linux) -> https://www.opensuse.org/ (what i'm using on my PCs, works fine for the most part[0]) -> https://www.linuxmint.com/ (people seem to like this) -> https://bazzite.gg/ (seems to be popular with gamers) -> https://www.debian.org/ (almost everything is based on this :-P) [0] for the most part because nothing…
I would vote for Bluefin: https://projectbluefin.io/
It's very similar to Bazzite, which you listed, but not gamer focused. You get an easy install, auto updates (without reboots), and a bulletproof, immutable OS that is nearly impossible to break.
If you want bling and tiling, Omarchy is the new hotness: https://omarchy.org/
Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#63May i suggest some solutions? :-P -> https://endof10.org/ (it has a map with people who can help install Linux) -> https://www.opensuse.org/ (what i'm using on my PCs, works fine for the most part[0]) -> https://www.linuxmint.com/ (people seem to like this) -> https://bazzite.gg/ (seems to be popular with gamers) -> https://www.debian.org/ (almost everything is based on this :-P) [0] for the most part because nothing…
May I suggest you give fedora a go? It still feels like the most mature distro out there, but I can be biased
TBH if i decide to change OS again, i'll probably go with Gentoo because AFAIK it provides means to have custom patches for packages and i'd like to do things like, e.g., add some stuff in the file dialog for Gtk3. Though i'm not sure this is something most people would care about, so i didn't mention it (also i only have a vague idea that this is possible, i haven't actually tried it in practice).
Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#64These are the reasons people are leaving Windows. Give it 2 more iterations of Steam OS and "Home" will see a no longer negliable decline.
Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#65This stuff is increasingly normalized across platforms. I'd say "vote with your wallet", but when all the tech platforms are doing it, there's not much choice. PCs / laptops are probably the last hold out: Just switch to Linux (but be careful which distro you pick) or MacOS (for now). The political pendulum is going to swing far left in the US given the disasters that are playing out in DC. Hopefully this sort of cra…
MacOS is just as aggressive about turning on icloud as windows is with it's crap.
When Apple forces users to use an online account to access their local Mac, and disables their OS unless they turn on iCloud on their Mac -- then you can claim equivalence between them.
Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#66This stuff is increasingly normalized across platforms. I'd say "vote with your wallet", but when all the tech platforms are doing it, there's not much choice. PCs / laptops are probably the last hold out: Just switch to Linux (but be careful which distro you pick) or MacOS (for now). The political pendulum is going to swing far left in the US given the disasters that are playing out in DC. Hopefully this sort of cra…
Agreed about switching to Linux. I don't agree on macOS though. Apple is nasty in its own way and has a ton of anti-user patterns no one should be dealing with. If you want to decide for yourself and not things being decided for you because "we know better than you what you really need", just use Linux.
Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#67OP doesn’t say why they are against free cloud backup, and it doesn’t matter, but (like everything else in Windows) there’s a registry setting you could change to disable the notification. I think it is ` HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\ Settings\Microsoft.SkyDrive.Desktop\Enabled = 0 (DWORD) ` https://www.urtech.ca/2018/03/solved-gpos-to-disable-notific...
Fine, there's a registry option. Do you think 99% of users even know what a registry is?
Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#68In Ubuntu I turn off motd ads, in Windows I turn off this stuff, it doesn't come back, I only remember it exists when I see the outrage journalism headlines. I don't see why more people don't just take the steps to remove annoyances.
I don't know if it is still true, but I noticed a difference in the behaviour of Home and Professional editions a number of years back. Home was definitely more agressive. Then there was a recent reinstall of Windows. The One Drive backup popup came up, but didn't give me an option to say no. It only allowed me to delay the decision by a week or a month.
Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
MacOS is just as aggressive about turning on icloud as windows is with it's crap.
When Apple forces users to use an online account to access their local Mac, and disables their OS unless they turn on iCloud on their Mac -- then you can claim equivalence between them.
I can claim equivalence between them whenever I want. If both OSes adopt and enforce my biggest pet peeves, then no amount of eye candy or freebie features will fix my workflow.
Gatekeeping and second opinions don't really move the needle on where I stand with either company.
Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#70Since no one mentioned how to actually dismiss the notification forever: OneDrive is treated as a normal app that is installed by default, you can actually just uninstall it through Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel.
During a major update it will be reinstalled.
That's about as close to forever as you can get with Microsoft.