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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 sebtron »

shmerl wrote: post #318
sebtron wrote: post #312

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The Steam main window did not open, although Steam itself did load in the background. I could work around this by disabling smooth scrolling on web view and some other GPU-related option (I forgot exactly). But then there was a strange glitch on every single game (both native and Proton-based). Periodically (e.g. every ~10 seconds on some 3D games, on every screen reload on some other) the screen turned black for abo…

What DE? And that's with all the latest components as above? I wouldn't use Debian stable for gaming purposes, since it falls behind very quickly. Debian testing / unstable is a better idea, and even then you'd want to install latest amdgpu firmware manually potentially.

KDE, not sure what version the kernel and the drivers are, whatever Debian stable has. I think kernel is 6.12.

I'll try updating the firmware and drivers manually if I have more issues in the future, thanks.

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

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Post by distances »

dotancohen wrote: post #257
rwyinuse wrote: post #224

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Yep, I dual boot Linux Mint & Windows 11 and only bother with the latter when I need MS Teams, or some other proprietary software that tends to be more reliable on Windows. In terms of performance and user experience Mint wins easily.

I don't know how it is today, but about 3 years ago I worked in a shop that used MS Teams. I was sneaky enough to get myself a Kubuntu install when everybody else was on Windows, but I had no problems using Teams on Kubuntu back then.

The Teams Linux client was discontinued but it works well enough in a browser.

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

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Post by liquid_thyme »

bigyabai wrote: post #32
hedora wrote: post #4

This stuff is increasingly normalized across platforms. I'd say "vote with your wallet", but when all the tech platforms are doing it, there's not much choice. PCs / laptops are probably the last hold out: Just switch to Linux (but be careful which distro you pick) or MacOS (for now). The political pendulum is going to swing far left in the US given the disasters that are playing out in DC. Hopefully this sort of cra…

macOS is absolutely awful about iCloud nag. If you try and use a Mac without an iCloud account, you'll get neverending popups and notifications begging you to go online. It's nearly as bad as Windows. Neither GNOME nor KDE get anywhere near as bad. It's really only these commercial "holier than thou" operating systems that think they know best.

Its everywhere. You get nagged constantly for Apple music on your iphone too. My dystopian prediction is that in the near future, corporations will just garnish your wages so they don't have to do this.

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

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Post by shmerl »

sebtron wrote: post #321
shmerl wrote: post #318

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What DE? And that's with all the latest components as above? I wouldn't use Debian stable for gaming purposes, since it falls behind very quickly. Debian testing / unstable is a better idea, and even then you'd want to install latest amdgpu firmware manually potentially.

KDE, not sure what version the kernel and the drivers are, whatever Debian stable has. I think kernel is 6.12. I'll try updating the firmware and drivers manually if I have more issues in the future, thanks.

Yeah, for sure always have latest kernel, Mesa and firmware if you are having any gaming issues. 6.12 is already old by now.

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

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Post by bigyabai »

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.

It's pretty horrible. When I use Windows, my foremost reaction is "how can they expect me to put up with this?" before walking away in disgust. I get offended, and I'm a sysadmin professionally.

Then I remember, in a moment of Eldritch revelation, my mom daily-drives this OS. My siblings and cousins probably use it at work. Billions of people around the world chafe through these lockscreen ads, "live tile" updates, OneDrive nags, Windows + G Xbox Game Bar (whatever the fuck that is), Cortana... it's baffling. The same thing runs through my head looking at recent macOS screenshots. Are geriatrics really expected to put up with all this theatrical nonsense? Is this subscription service racket really more attractive than trying to compete as a normal desktop?

Been using Linux for six years now. I cannot remember a single time I've truly missed Windows or macOS.

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

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Post by aeon_ai »

rootusrootus wrote: post #234
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've been a Mac & Linux user since about 2007 or so, and I had no idea what Windows had become. Then a couple weeks ago I caved and built my son a Windows gaming PC. Egads, Windows is annoying! Even more so than I remember! I'm amazed that people actually put up with it for their daily driver. Right on schedule, my son came to me yesterday evening and asked what he should do about the backup warning. It didn't give a…

Bail and go Linux.

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

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Post by rootusrootus »

RHSeeger wrote: post #298
rootusrootus wrote: post #234

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I've been a Mac & Linux user since about 2007 or so, and I had no idea what Windows had become. Then a couple weeks ago I caved and built my son a Windows gaming PC. Egads, Windows is annoying! Even more so than I remember! I'm amazed that people actually put up with it for their daily driver. Right on schedule, my son came to me yesterday evening and asked what he should do about the backup warning. It didn't give a…

My Mac tells me 5+ times per day that it's unable to backup something or another because I'm not logged into the Apple cloud or whatever it's called. And there's not obvious way to make it stop. This is not unique to Windows.

I don't run into that, but I do have an iCloud account and I'm logged into it, which probably helps. I'm logged into my Microsoft account on Windows, too, but it is still pushy.

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

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Post by unlikelytomato »

vee-kay wrote: post #299
zwnow wrote: post #263

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People dont care about their operating system. Most Mac users never learn Mac and most Windows users never learn windows. They use their computers for emails, some presentations and occasional gaming. They dont want to learn different kinds of software. Which is fine. For most people its just a power tool they never read the manual for. They dont even know what other tools there are so they dont know that life could…

I just wish MacOS would allow me to have the Minimize, Maximize/Restore,Close buttons on top-right corner (default in Windows), rather than top-left (which is counter-intuitive for right-handed users, using the mouse). Even Linux allows such basic customization. If Apple allowed this type of user-friendly customisation on MacOS, I suspect a lot of Windows users will migrate to Mac.

I have extreme doubts that there is any meaningful number of windows users holding out on trying macos based on such a thing.

The users are much more simple than this. Most have never even tried Mac. If they want to, they will just buy one the next time they need a computer and accept the new experience as being the new norm.

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