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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 Terr_ »

the__alchemist wrote: post #264
reddalo wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My 2c. I agree with the parent and article: OneDrive can be a major problem with Windows. They push it on you, your personal documents can be moved to OneDrive without your permission etc. Confusing and user-hostile design. Linux has its own idiosyncrasies, which may or may not make it worth. E.g. ABI diaspora, installing things can be inconsistent and high-effort, the cycle of copy+pasting CLI commands and system fi…

> treating your PC like a multi-user system that has an admin by default, etc.

I think I have the opposite orientation: In the past when family and friends needed help to install/rescue their machine (on Windows versions that supported it) I always ensured there was a separate "Manager" admin login and then made their main account "limited", albeit with UAC popups.

If nothing else, it made repeat visits much easier.

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

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Post by hulitu »

mihaaly wrote: post #271
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…

I wish they gave more attention to the many bugs. One is the many many years old renaming trouble, renaming a file in Windows Explorer inside the OneDrive sometimes select all while I am alread typing extension to the end of the file name, clearing everything with the following keystroke, either resulting in something stupid saved on Enter if I do not realise what is happening (and being mad not remembering what the…

> I wish they gave more attention to the many bugs.

We all wish that. But if you look at their responses, when people report bugs, tough times. They. Don't. Give. A. Shit.

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

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

McGlockenshire wrote: post #277
sugarpimpdorsey wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An open source developer (the creator of Ruby on Rails and Omarchy Linux) made a political comment someone didn't like. Now there is a concerted effort by a small group of terminally online histrionics to ruin his life and get all his projects cancelled. The comment was apparently made on his personal blog and not in any official capacity.

> made a political comment someone didn't like It should be noted that this specific framing ("it's just a disagreement," "someone didn't like it," "it's nothing big") is used by the people that, instead, like the "comment." It's an extremely common pattern. So is one of the words he uses later, "histrionics." The comment in question is an ethnonationalist blog post. Not a comment somewhere, but an actual goddamn ess…

This is false. I do not, in fact, have an opinion one way or the other about his blog post. I don't care at all what the man has to say about politics. But I still disapprove of people trying to drag his politics into the thread, and start flame wars, every time the man comes up.

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

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Post by quacked »

I deeply hate Microsoft, and most modern commercial software design, but OneDrive has consistently been the best app I've ever used for large file storage. Can anyone explain why they hate it so much? I have near instantaneous access to my documents on my computer and phone. I've been considering a move to Mint, but I like OneDrive so much I'm not sure that I want to lose it.

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

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Post by McGlockenshire »

lukevp wrote: post #143
drbw wrote: post #86

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You can have a negative opinion of DHH, but why not provide some context as to why your dislike of him would cause you to think this Linux distro is a bad option? I don’t know anything about the distro.

Not wanting to use the works of / a project lead by someone that holds beliefs that are repulsive to you is a perfectly valid reason.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

close04 wrote: post #275
nolist_policy wrote: post #97

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It's interesting how ChromeOS respects your choices more than Windows here. There is a setting to disable Google Drive and it just works. It won't auto-enable, no popups or nags or anything. Even Google Docs/Workspace falls back to a trimmed down offline version.

After setting up an Android phone for someone recently, I think it's stuffed with dark patterns. The amount of times that OS was pushing me to enable or opt-out from syncing different things to their cloud and generally sabotage the privacy via various settings was staggering. Windows is certainly on the same path but I'm not sure how far ahead or behind they are in the competition to screw their users over with thes…

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

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Post by Telaneo »

eptcyka wrote: post #108
chasing0entropy wrote: post #90

It baffles me how many people on HN cannot operate with a simple deny-all firewall. The windows version and updates I install are the only updates installed. The files I back up are the only files that back up. Nothing can connect to the internet. Not Windows Update, Not google chrome update, Not onedrive, Nor any virus or malware program. Reliance on the internet is the problem. No windows version including windows…

I do not believe it is reasonable to use an OS where you need to do hostage negotiation on a daily basis. If you need to go this far, what will you do when an MS update adds a bypass for the firewall you’re using?

> I do not believe it is reasonable to use an OS where you need to do hostage negotiation on a daily basis.

So much this. It's not that technically minded people can't figure out how to florb the nerfwedge. It's that it shouldn't be needed to begin with, and you have to know about it to begin with (which usually happens by getting burned by not doing it, either with one's own machine, or a friend's or family member's machine).

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

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Post by sebtron »

shmerl wrote: post #220
sebtron wrote: post #202

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

You probably used Nvidia and some outdated distro with a bad DE on top. Not something you should be using. Using X11 is DOA anyway, so you can figure out what was wrong in your case and use better options.

No, AMD. I had issues on the latest Debian, released this summer, with KDE. X11 works perfectly fine. I would be happy with wayland too, if it worked. And in fact I use it on my other device.

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

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Post by cortesoft »

badsectoracula wrote: post #12

May 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 use Linux for almost all my machines, but I have too many games that can only run on windows.
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