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Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files
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Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files
#212I 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…
I agree here, but... If I don't want something synced to Onedrive then I usually save it in my downloads folder or another separate folder My complaint is that MS has intentionally made it SO DIFFICULT to do that. There's a significant amount of extra clicking and thinking necessary to go through the steps to do it.
MS actually made it harder to save stuff in OneDrive by basically hardcoding the folders it will backup unlike most other similar services that let you sync arbitrary folders on any drive.
Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files
#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
All your multiple PCs have the same Documents folder. Files created on one PC are synced to the cloud and appear in all the other PCs' Documents folders, and will be downloaded to the local storage if you try to access them. You get a small icon next to each file or folder to try and tell you if the files are local or in the cloud or whatever status. If apps are saving data to synced folders (eg. all those many many…
> All your multiple PCs have the same Documents folder. Files created on one PC are synced to the cloud and appear in all the other PCs' Documents folders That sounds horrible. > Could be good, or bad It sounds bad either way. If the app exists on both computers there's good chance of conflicting overwrites of whatever is saved there. If the app is not used on a device then it's just a waste of downloading and syncin…
> That sounds horrible.
This is how Roaming Windows User Profiles work at most companies. I don't understand why you think it sounds horrible.
Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files
#214Windows is not for doing serious stuff anymore, the only remaining use case for me is a gaming PC (if you turn off all the nags, it's pretty decent). I work on a Mac, I run servers on Linux, I game on Windows.
I mean, macOS is not a serious OS either. It has worse error management/reporting than Windows - Microsoft at least give you the courtesy of pretending they're trying to help you resolve the issue with an indecipherable hex code and badly localised error message, that you may, if you're very lucky, be able to Google. Apple give you a middle finger with a "Something went wrong" or just spins forever. No information wh…
> Probably my favourite example was when it was giving me an error message of "A device is using too much power, try unplugging and replugging it". Which device? Which port? What is "too much"?
Another fun one: “Updates are available. Do you want to install them?” What updates? What software is getting updates? What do they fix? No information, just a notification asking you whether you want to install vague updates.
Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files
#215MS has been doing shit like this for decades. Every couple months I log into my dusty Windows account and lo and behold there's a bunch of weird shit like Candy Crush or Copilot or whatever that's just decided to reinstall itself for the nth time. I just noticed yesterday that Copilot or OneDrive is pressuring me to set it up and my options are: Yes, Remind me in 1 week, or Remind me in 1 month. Like, what the fuck i…
> As far as I'm concerned, I'm fine with these tech CTOs replacing their software engineering workforce with LLMs because the bar is already on the fucking floor when it comes to use experience. The engineers can’t be completely to blame here, Microsoft is too consistently bad for that. It is a high-level strategy issue. Replace the Product Managers with LLMs maybe… a bunch of random matvecs couldn’t possibly be wron…
The engineers must share partial blame. They’re developing the actual software after all!
Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files
#216I support an environment with well over 20k devices across windows, android and ios that use one drive.
no major issues here. sure its got the occasional bug, and is missing some features i think it should have... but all in all its very usable.
Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files
#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
This being Microsoft, the null hypothesis is "user error induced by intentionally evil UX".
For decades, the unofficial Microshit motto has been: Intel inside, Idiot outside. Because Microsoft treated users as if they were idiots. So basically tons of Windows related websites teach this infallible little trick as solution when a user gets a Windows BSOD (Blue Screen of Death): Reboot! Invariably, the reboot causes the Windows OS to start working again, till the recurrence of whatever circumstances (typicall…
Indeed. Up until the user-hostile turn of Windows 10 and 11.
Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files
#218Windows is not for doing serious stuff anymore, the only remaining use case for me is a gaming PC (if you turn off all the nags, it's pretty decent). I work on a Mac, I run servers on Linux, I game on Windows.
>the only remaining use case for me is a gaming PC More and more it seems people don't even find it necessary for that. I'm "the Linux friend" for a lot of my friends, and over the last year-ish a surprising number of them have asked about advice for switching to Linux. I've helped four people attempt the switch, and three out of the four have stuck with Linux so far.
All the damn developers keep turning off online play for Linux users though... I play two games a lot currently, Apex Legends and Battlefield 6, both block Linux players from online play thanks to their shitty kernel rootkits not supporting Linux.
Apex Legends at least was running fine on Steam Deck prior to november 2024 when they instituted this change, and I can tell you from personal experience it had very little impact on cheaters, which was their excuse for the change (supposedly most cheaters were connecting via Linux clients).
Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files
#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
>the only remaining use case for me is a gaming PC More and more it seems people don't even find it necessary for that. I'm "the Linux friend" for a lot of my friends, and over the last year-ish a surprising number of them have asked about advice for switching to Linux. I've helped four people attempt the switch, and three out of the four have stuck with Linux so far.
All the damn developers keep turning off online play for Linux users though... I play two games a lot currently, Apex Legends and Battlefield 6, both block Linux players from online play thanks to their shitty kernel rootkits not supporting Linux. Apex Legends at least was running fine on Steam Deck prior to november 2024 when they instituted this change, and I can tell you from personal experience it had very little…
> supposedly most cheaters were connecting via Linux clients
I always find this so hard to believe, mainly because the majority of players are on Windows, which means that the market for cheats is there and statistically most likely to happen there.
I just don’t play games by devs that snub Linux. There are many to choose from.
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> 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…
Bazzite is built using imagemode/bootc; is it not? I'm trying to understand the "deprecated already" in your first paragraph. (All I know about rpm-ostree is from using and adminning a distro that relies on rpm-ostree. I.e., I don't know much.) Here is my guess as to what you mean: Bazzite could continue to use imagemode and bootc while replacing rpm-ostree with something better, and maybe you'll give Bazzite another…
Fedora Atomic and RHEL used to ship with rpm-ostree, new versions are now using bootc. the base philosophy is still to ship the OS as an image, but bootc goes more into layering like docker-images, so that you can deploy changes a bit more easily/dynamically.
they're different technologies with bootc being the new kid. bootc means "bootable containers". rpm-ostree has not much to do with containers and is more like managing your OS with git-logic.
forget about "imagemode", that's the marketing-term RedHat uses for bootc.
i imagine bazzite will migrate to bootc sooner or later, but of course that requires a new way to build and ship it.