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As a reminder, you can always just uninstall OneDrive and call it a day. Is this really true? Does it never get reinstalled or enabled by a cumulative update?
On my gaming rig that I've had for quite a few years now, it has never been re-enabled and I've never been nagged about it.
Microsoft makes it a pain, but you can still jump through some CLI hoops to use only a local user account to log in to Windows, rather than the cloud-conmected Microsoft account they try to funnel you into. Not logging into a Microsoft account prevents OneDrive from doing anything other than spamming you with notifications about how great it would be if you logged in and started using it. And you can still uninstall…
Microsoft has all of the apis available to monitor changes on its own file system. Why does their solution seemingly run naive file comparisons to detect changes? What is it doing burning all of that computation time? Why does it struggle with tracking 100k files? A bubble sort written in Ruby should be able to handle 100k anything in seconds.
Microsoft makes it a pain, but you can still jump through some CLI hoops to use only a local user account to log in to Windows, rather than the cloud-conmected Microsoft account they try to funnel you into. Not logging into a Microsoft account prevents OneDrive from doing anything other than spamming you with notifications about how great it would be if you logged in and started using it. And you can still uninstall…
You can still use it offline without an account just fine with Pro SKUs and up.
I've never found any compelling reason to set up Windows 11 (or 10) with an online account. Things like this just reinforce my decision to stick with a local account.
It forced me this last time I set up windows 11
It's extremely obnoxious that they've made it this difficult.
I've never found any compelling reason to set up Windows 11 (or 10) with an online account. Things like this just reinforce my decision to stick with a local account.
It forced me this last time I set up windows 11
Don't connect to the internet -> Shift + F10 to bring up CLI -> OOBE\bypassnro
The out-of-box experience will restart, and you will have a button to set up with a local account.
You can also (or at least could, it's been a bit since I've tried this method) use a banned e-mail account when it asks for your Microsoft account.
Seems like every 48-72 hours now Microsoft announces yet another extremely compelling reason to abandon their platform for Linux.
I think there would need to be a concerted effort at a grass-roots level, say from r/buildapc, to get new PC gamers onto an alternative for there to be a considerable shift away from Windows.