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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 quacked »

rolph wrote: post #348
quacked wrote: post #285

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.

when you lose onedrive, what else do you lose? All Your Files Data and Media! if you want to use onedrive ok thats a choice, if its impossible to store locally, and you have the sword of deletecles hanging over your head, thats not a choice, thats a consequence.

Isn't the point of OneDrive that you don't lose it, though? Are you talking about a case where I get hacked or banned?

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

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Post by saturnite »

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…

Then Microsoft can do the exact opposite sometimes. The drive cleanup option used alright, but then I noticed that it now wants to clear the Downloads library. I don't know about everyone else, but I put more than temporary files there.

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

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Post by a022311 »

cogman10 wrote: post #262
a022311 wrote: post #232

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I only rarely need to use Microsoft Office or Paint.NET and a Windows VM on Linux has solved the problem entirely for me. I don't know if videoconferencing would work as well, but I'd really recommend giving it a try! I've already gone without a proper Windows install for almost 2 years.

Since MS is making the office UX web based, I'd suggest people try just loading 365 in a browser like edge (It's generally flawless for MS products). Especially apps like Teams. Once you realize that the dedicated app is basically just a browser shell, using a real browser becomes somewhat of a no brainer. Edge even supports PWAs on linux which can give you the "app" experience without the app.

I've tried this many times and my conclusion is that it still lacks many features available in the native apps (by the way, these are absolutely not webviews). Using office online also requires signing in which many people, including myself will avoid.

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

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

queenkjuul wrote: post #385
queenkjuul wrote: post #226

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Sadly Firefox has been utter garbage for me the last few months, routinely hangs for me on 3 different machines across two different OSes. Running out of options these days

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I work across 5+ desktops (phy and vm) over the course of the day, 3 running multiple Ffx instances + forks. I support and maintain several dozen more Ffx installs for clients. Mostly because Firefox is the most capable (ex:containers) and trustworthy of my browser options.

Of the few problems I have, some are due to my unconventional setups - like the one I'm typing on now. It's a remote app, running on a vm w/ a copy of a profile storing logins.

I presently don't have any Ffx issues pending. Ironing them out took less time and energy than posting a rant about it.

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

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Post by TsiCClawOfLight »

al_borland wrote: post #339
reddalo wrote: post #52

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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.

Do you think it looks like a toy just because of how it looks, or because of how it works? Spotlight got a major update in macOS 26 where it can now perform actions. I can open spotlight and type "run " and get the output right there, selecting it will put the resulting text into my current window. 16:16 up 23:27, 1 user, load averages: 1.72 1.78 1.90 There is my uptime posted in HN with only Spotlight and my hands n…

krunner had this since at least plasma 6. Well done apple for matching a built-in KDE feature, I guess.

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

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Post by tavavex »

fainpul wrote: post #354
brirec wrote: post #41

> Do you think Microsoft understands consent? > ( ) Yes > (•) Remind me in 3 days

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I didn't even know Unicode had these rounded rectangle symbols. Neat!

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

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Post by tavavex »

vee-kay wrote: post #210
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.

Did you forget the dozen or so Start Menu ads for random garbageware they started bundling with Windows 10? They didn't shy away from it either, you got all of that even in the Pro SKU.

Windows 10 isn't any less ad-ridden than 11. I remember it in all the OneDrive pushing, default browser resetting, lockscreen ad inserting 'glory'. Only after you manually stamped all of that out did it start being usable. But you can do that with 11 too. For now.

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Post by impendia »

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.

You can't turn off notifications on MacOS AFAICT, but you can set "quiet hours" to 24 hours a day. So now I only see any notifications if I happen to be using my computer at exactly 10:00 pm.

If you have any notifications you actually do want, this isn't a viable solution. But personally I have yet to ever see a notification on my computer which I considered important.

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Post by pndy »

radley wrote: post #356
vee-kay wrote: post #299

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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 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). Classic Mac OS was released first, with well-considered, consistent design standards. Windows arrived almost 2 years later, and in the interest of not looking it like copied Macs, Microsoft essential…

They tried once - they released interface guidelines with Vista and for a while it worked but soon they started to flip everything over as usual. W7 was relatively a polishing up release but they mangled everything with W8 - not only because it didn't had Start button but also because they tried to combine Aero with Metro and it just look awful. It's hard to not see similarity in Apple's Liquid Glass on top of flat elements from previous releases.

All in all, Windows still comes with that 90s-early 00s flat 9x widgets buried deep beneath fancy W11 interface for compatibility reasons. Because Microsoft never could have their OS9 to OSX transition equivalent. They swapped DOS based 9x line but interface was still same - hell even NT got sprinkled with 9x and dropped old 3.x one

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

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Post by andriesm »

rufugee wrote: post #162
jaykru wrote: post #96

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I've faced many fewer hiccups on CachyOS/Arch in the past few months than on Windows. In the first month of owning this hardware, I had an unexplained BSOD that actually bricked my whole Win11 install. And this is pretty recent/funky 2-in-1 hardware, not an old ThinkPad I've cherry-picked for good Linux support. This is an important moment for free software; the big platforms are finally cinching down on users hard e…

same experience here with Omarchy. it’s been (mostly) flawless. the only reason i keep windows around at this point is fortnite.

I use Windows 11 exclusively for games. When will we get steamOS with nvidia support!!

Just want out of the box 4k hdr 120hz vrr and 5.1 surround sound over hdmi on nvidia gpu, it can boot straight into steam for all I care. Performance should not be worse than windows.

Is this possible? Install and it just works out of the box; of course games will have to be compiled for this... but if this becomes a major market.... then games will support it.

I would LOVE this.

Would be drop in OS replacement for my dedicated windows gaming PC on LG OLED tv. ps: These things are amazing for gaming due to fast pixel response times. Great for couch co-op!

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