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Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by tracker1 »

bikelang wrote: post #167
tracker1 wrote: post #136

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Try using a Bluetooth headset in online meetings. That's only the tip of the iceberg... Another is when you're trying to mix multiple inputs/outputs in Linux across various pro audio accessories, which only Mac seems to get right.

I use my Bluetooth headset on discord, slack, and google meet without any problems on Pop and Bazzite ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Funny enough - I have less problems with audio on Pop/Bazzite than my Mac (where my headset mic can be muted by flipping up - but is unable to unmute without power cycling the headset) or Windows (which cannot ever remember which device I want to use for which app). I held off on switching to desktop Linux…

TBF, it's not as bad as it used to be.. the main issue is that unless I manually switch to mono mode before going into meetings, then back to stereo to listen to music after, I tend to have issues.

I mostly just use my webcam's mic, despite my headphones being better so I can leave my headset on bluetooth/stereo.

Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by 4ggr0 »

exographicskip wrote: post #166
4ggr0 wrote: post #109

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> the only remaining use case for me is a gaming PC even this has gone away for me, exited first with Bazzite and am now on CachyOS. Still got a debloated Windows11 on a different SSD for when friends want to play games with kernel-level anticheat or other bs. feels good to be free of Microsoft. work on a Mac, game on Linux, phones run Android.

Love cachyos. Such a great OS. Wanted to love bazzite, but it's got too many opinionated takes and rpm-ostree is a PITA. pacman does have its pitfalls, but aside from upgrades, it's been appliance-level stable for a 100% gaming laptop docked to my tv

> rpm-ostree is a PITA

yup...at first i thought, "at work i have to manage rpm-ostree servers, so why not use the same tech at home?", well, because the tech is freaking buggy, annoying and deprecated already (imagemode/bootc).

Bazzite also had strange issues with the XBOX controllers i use, those issues went away with CachyOS. in the end it doesn't matter that much, on both i use(d) KDE Plasma. GF also uses the PC with her own useraccount to play her games. overall very satisfied, can't complain.

don't lynch me, decided to go for the pretty standard instead of Sway or Hyprland, as i feared that this would bring more issues with gaming. maybe that's an irrational fear, who knows.

Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by tracker1 »

rescbr wrote: post #171
tracker1 wrote: post #136

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Try using a Bluetooth headset in online meetings. That's only the tip of the iceberg... Another is when you're trying to mix multiple inputs/outputs in Linux across various pro audio accessories, which only Mac seems to get right.

Usually PipeWire handles these situations better than PulseAudio, which is still the default audio daemon in many/most distributions. To properly support Pro Audio you have to completely switch the audio stack to JACK - which I also used in MacOS a few years ago because Apple's audio stack wasn't up to the task as well.

It's more that Mac and Windows do better at auto-switching to mono+mic mode vs stereo audio mode than Linux in practice. If I don't manually switch in the audio settings it's problematic... I usually just use my webcam mic and keep my headset on stereo despite the reduced quality for others hearing me.

Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by m463 »

snielson wrote: post #57

I love OneDrive. I don't know why everyone hates it. I save things in OneDrive, and they are backed up to the cloud and synced with the other computers I use. Some computers are shared by six family members, each with their own MS account and 1TB of storage. OneDrive makes it so the computers can have a 1TB hard drive but still give everyone ready access to their files by not storing them all on the hard drive. If I…

You are conveniently ignoring the crux of the matter - that onedrive was forced on people without their knowledge or consent.

I enjoy my car, but I would dislike if someone took it without my consent and signed me up for uber instead.

Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by dingaling »

CWuestefeld wrote: post #100
moontear wrote: post #93

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There is? Not at all. Whatever I save from my browser (Edge/Firefox/Chromium) is automatically saved to Downloads and Downloads is not automatically synced with OneDrive Backup. Backed up is Documents, Music, Videos, Desktop etc. but Downloads not AFAIK.

That's true. I wasn't clear - I was thinking mainly of the Office products: Word, Excel, etc. They've got a whole different Save As dialog that go out of their way to funnel you into OneDrive. So it's interrupting my flow precisely in the course of things I need to use brainpower on themselves.

You can still access the traditional save dialog by pressing F12 instead of Ctrl-S

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/customize-the-sav...

Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by miladyincontrol »

CWuestefeld wrote: post #146
Zambyte wrote: post #125

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Unless you need compatibility with Adobe file formats, Free editing software works fine too. I've been using Darktable for about a decade. People bash on GIMP for not being able to do what Photoshop can, but it's because GIMP is built with the intent of being extended by the user. It can be extended to do what people complain that it cannot do. Kdenlive is good at filling the needs met by Premiere. I think the hardes…

I strongly disagree. Have you used Lightroom in the last, say, two years? They've had a revolutionary upgrade in their masking tools. ML models power automated, smart mask creation. For example, on a landscape photo I can get, with just a couple of clicks, separate masks for sky, water, land, foliage, structures, and natural ground. The power that this gives me to edit my photos is amazing. To the best of my knowledg…

By large agree, the most recent years in lightroom have been some of it's most transformational. A lot of tasks that used to require going into PS have been borderline automated. Their more recent denoise methods as well have been nothing short of excellent.

Not that its perfect when 100% automated but it takes a fraction the time to adjust things towards perfection, no one misses doing it by hand.

Rapidraw does try to compete some having ML based masking but I gotta agree most the open source solutions have been lagging behind bigtime.

Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by CWuestefeld »

dingaling wrote: post #185
CWuestefeld wrote: post #100

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That's true. I wasn't clear - I was thinking mainly of the Office products: Word, Excel, etc. They've got a whole different Save As dialog that go out of their way to funnel you into OneDrive. So it's interrupting my flow precisely in the course of things I need to use brainpower on themselves.

You can still access the traditional save dialog by pressing F12 instead of Ctrl-S https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/customize-the-sav...

Thanks!

Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by Izkata »

tracker1 wrote: post #136
bikelang wrote: post #124

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I’m not sure what distro you used or how long ago this was - but I’ve been using Pop!_os as my general OS + dev env (and more recently switched off Windows to Bazzite for gaming) - and I’ve never once had to battle with audio or weird twiddling with settings to get stuff to work. In my experience - both have had the kind of out-of-the-box experience I’ve come to expect from Windows. If anything - Windows has required…

Try using a Bluetooth headset in online meetings. That's only the tip of the iceberg... Another is when you're trying to mix multiple inputs/outputs in Linux across various pro audio accessories, which only Mac seems to get right.

Work laptop on Ubuntu 20.04 with pipewire, I've used several bluetooth headsets over the years from all different brands and haven't had any issues across Google Meet, Zoom, or Teams.

Coworkers with wired headphones (also on Ubuntu, but I don't know if they switched to pipewire) tend to have problems regularly.

Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by timbit42 »

SanjayMehta wrote: post #87

I use iCloud, Dropbox and OneDrive for family, professional use and junk files respectively. Works out really well. They all work perfectly for their intended uses.

> uses

Are you implying each one's intended uses are different? What are the differences?

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