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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

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Post by willis936 »

badsectoracula wrote: post #82
brushfoot wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My main reasons for using Windows right now are: - Davinci Resolve - Adobe suite - AutoHotkey scripts, lots of them - Microsoft Office, mainly PowerPoint, Excel and Word for creating and interacting with other companies' docs. Libre/OpenOffice mangled them/were missing features I depend on - Issues with my laptop's Nvidia card (screen tearing etc.) last time I tried to switch, and rabbit holes that I don't have time…

About AutoHotKey, you can do similar stuff as long as you are using X11 as there are various utilities for it, such as xdotool[0]. There is even an AutoHotKey-for-Linux project[1] (it also needs X11 - the author did try to port it to Wayland but gave up). For Wayland there are some alternatives like ydotool[2] (actually AFAIK since ydotool uses some daemon to inject events it works with anything, not just Wayland, bu…

ydotool helps bridge the gap in wayland. xdotool replacements ate even more essential since wayland strips away most of the hooks into windows.

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by sebtron »

shmerl wrote: post #50
j1elo wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMHO Linux Mint keeps being the strongest option to recommend when the intention is a clean transition with the least amount of fiddling. It just works, it is reliable, and it doesn't play games with changes of basic technologies that can only cause confusion (e.g. none of the Ubuntu shenanigans like their confusing desktop or their non-Debian packaging)

I wouldn't recommend Mint. Better use something with recent KDE Plasma and recent kernel and Mesa for best Wayland experience. Especially speaking of playing games, I periodically see newcomer Linux gamers hitting problems due to Mint being outdated and not having good Wayland support. Especially for any kind of recent hardware.

For me it's the exact opposite, I had problems with Steam games on Wayland and I switched back to X11.

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by marzullo »

itopaloglu83 wrote: post #114
creato wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MacOS is just as aggressive about turning on icloud as windows is with it's crap.

I’m sorry but you’re mistaken. It’s literally a normal skip button when first setting up the machine. https://youtu.be/rE-hFyANr0Y And unlike Windows it doesn’t turn itself on randomly or install additional apps like OneDrive, Teams, and Skype etc. with every OS update.

Yep, just setup a new MacBook Air and did not have to link an Apple account during setup.

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by ndiddy »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #48

Hope the PM in charge with the scammy copy designed to trick people into turning this on is happy with the boost in free users falling for it. My dad turned it on not knowing what it meant and it completely messed up his workflows and now I have to figure out how to safely disable it and move his files back. I will remember Microsoft causing this problem for him every time I think of or get asked if someone should us…

Doing shady stuff to juice KPIs seems like standard operating procedure at Microsoft. My favorite example of this is a few years after Windows Phone came out (when it was already clear it was going to be a failure), Microsoft announced they would be paying developers $100 per app (up to 20 apps) for ANYTHING submitted to the Windows Phone store. Clearly some executive was being graded on "number of apps in the store". As expected, this resulted in Windows Phone having a wide and varied selection of apps as long as all you needed was Chuck Norris jokes, fart apps, soundboards, whack-a-mole, Simon, etc.

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by cindyllm »

tavavex wrote: post #148

Why did we universally decide that this stuff is okay to do for businesses? Is it just because it's legal? Imagine if agreeing to things anywhere else in the real world worked the same way it does with Microsoft. Hi there, would you like me to come in and talk about my religion and what types of nonbelievers deserve to be tortured for eternity? No? Okay, sounds good. I'll just plaster these signs and posters all over…

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Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by tombert »

9x39 wrote: post #187
tombert wrote: post #123

I just want to rant a bit about Microsoft right now. A few weeks ago, Microsoft decided to auto-update my mom's computer to Windows 11, and delightfully the computer no longer booted. Even after a litany of different boot keystrokes and automatic repairs and attempted recoveries, it would not boot. I think it has something to do with the utter incompetence of the Windows automatic update process not correctly updatin…

Been there - I help a lot of older folks with their business computers. The desire to make Windows an appliance falls flat when older PCs get on that auto-update treadmill. For example, Windows now comes OEM with Bitlocker drive encryption enabled. Good in theory - when you toss/donate/sell your old PC, normies don't think about their personal lives and banking details being available, so that's good. However, they a…

The fact that it's 2025 and there's no legitimate way to run a live USB with Windows baffles me.

In the case of my mom's computer rescue, as far as I can tell, literally the only legal way to recover my mom's Windows NTFS drive contents was to use Linux. I had to use Linux to fix Microsoft's incompetence.

I am quite confident that my mom would mostly be fine with Linux Mint on this computer; 99% of what she does on the computer is use Chrome, which works fine on Linux. Hell, Edge works fine on Linux now if you want to stay in the Microsoft ecosystem. The only blocker now is that I am positive that she will not use a computer unless it can run Microsoft Office directly on the computer, and I have not been successful getting Office 2016 or Office 365 running on Linux with Wine or Proton in my attempts.

Maybe for Christmas I will buy my mom a Macbook or something. Then she'll be forced to move to something better.

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by qingcharles »

CrossVR wrote: post #40

Since 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.

I've started using Tiny11 on all my setups, then running DeBloat afterwards. This removes every piece of crapware* and none of them seem to try to reinstall on update (so far, fingers crossed).

https://ntdotdev.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/the-complete-tiny1...

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

* be warned, this also removes Edge, so you have to grab your own browser installer of choice

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Post by delusional »

bigyabai wrote: post #93
delusional wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> feels like a toy for kids. I wish unserious complaining like this wasn't mixed with actual technical criticism of software.

It is very serious. I love the way Catalina and Mojave looks; dark mode or light mode, it just screams "professional" at the top of it's lungs. Big Sur is, somehow, the exact opposite. Corners are rounded off as if they could hurt someone, and margins are padded more than a cell in solitary confinement. Space is wasted everywhere. It's Fischer-Price design philosophy and I'm hardly the only one to point it out. In a…

> Space is wasted everywhere.

Sure, that's a reasonable technical criticism. Wasted screen space is, in my opinion, an issue in modern interface design trends. Good design uses space in a thoughtful manner. The designers of macOS clearly don't agree with us, but we can have a reasonable technical discussion about that. We can consult the data. We can consult the users.

> It's Fischer-Price design philosophy

You're mixing the two again. Fisher-Price was not consulted in the design of modern macOS interfaces, and complaining about not liking the design language cheapens all your actual points. No real discussion can be had around this taste garbage. You're rage baiting.

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by citizenkeen »

reddalo wrote: post #52
Podrod wrote: post #36

I used to use Windows Backup with One Drive years ago but it just really pissed me off, especially with how My Documents is handled. There was that time I discovered several GB of screenshots had been automatically saved to My Pictures from some setting they snuck into the printscreen screen grab tool and then that of course those were automatically uploaded to the cloud. After disabling the option it would sometimes…

I agree, nowadays Linux seems like the only reliable solution. Even macOS, with the latest "liquid glass" update, feels like a toy for kids. I just wish the Affinity suite would be available for Linux too.

With Affinity (likely) switching to a subscription model, I wouldn't hold out hope they're avoiding enshitification.

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by vee-kay »

georgeburdell wrote: post #87

I recently was forced to get Windows 11 because my new build's motherboard only supported UEFI and there was some incompatibility with my 10 year old Windows 10 boot disk. Windows 11 is an abomination; I paid $200 for a Pro license and I still get ads. My kids will be learning computing on Linux.

No ads still on Win10, thankfully.

That Win11 is not an OS, it is an advertisement billboard.

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