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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 8cvor6j844qw_d6 »

OneDrive has a pretty annoying interaction with Microsoft Office-PDF exports (not print to PDF).

If you export a PDF to a OneDrive folder, Office (especially Word) will instead create this file onto OneDrive itself (not local).

Its a 50/50 chance that your local OneDrive will sync it properly especially if you're in a fast workflow (e.g., preparing for a meeting soon with minor amendments) or you wait for several minutes for it to sync or you logon to OneDrive web to get manually download the file.

You pretty much have to export to a non-OneDrive synced folder for PDF export to work on local reliably.

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

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Post by badsectoracula »

brushfoot wrote: post #55
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…

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, but on the other hand it only provides a basic tiny subset of xdotool's commands) but the core protocol isn't particularly friendly to such automation.

[0] https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool

[1] https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11

[2] https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool

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

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Post by jmward01 »

I turn off every 'to cloud' option I can find on any device I have. Apple's iCloud is just as evil. I have turned that off so many times over the years it makes me angry. It is clear that these companies push 'cloud' in general as a dark pattern to lock you in and harvest your data and actions. Even if they don't train directly, the metadata of usage is all there and I find it hard to believe they don't harvest every bit they can. We need laws and protections that require cloud independence similar to the browser wars. If you have a 'cloud' offering baked into your OS then it must be a competitive market offering. You should also be able to easily migrate to different cloud offerings.

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

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Post by lambdaone »

At this point, Windows has jumped the shark. It's clear Microsoft now see the future of their company as cloud services, with the desktop gateways just as an endpoint for that, and the progressive enshittification of the Microsoft ecosystem has reached the point at which it is no longer the sensible OS for the mainstream, but is now a gamified mess like pay-to-play gaming.

Fortunately for most of us, Linux and MacOS exist. But companies that have built their entire IT infrastructure on Windows really have no clear way out other than to follow Microsoft down the rabbit hole - which is, of course, the whole point of these recent changes.

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

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Post by drbw »

pkulak wrote: post #62
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 would vote for Bluefin: https://projectbluefin.io/ It's very similar to Bazzite, which you listed, but not gamer focused. You get an easy install, auto updates (without reboots), and a bulletproof, immutable OS that is nearly impossible to break. If you want bling and tiling, Omarchy is the new hotness: https://omarchy.org/

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

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Post by georgeburdell »

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.

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

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Post by bigyabai »

nogridbag wrote: post #71
bigyabai wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I haven't experienced this but I see you're the second comment pointing that out. I've been using macbooks for work for a long time and never once used iCloud nor do I remember seeing a confusing prompt. But I also rarely upgrade my machine. With Windows, a regular seemingly normal update appeared almost as if I was upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 and it prompted me to do the backup to OneDrive. I accepted it…

iCloud nags appear in the Settings app and Notifications menu. When you are signed out, Apple will assault you with notifications (that you must disabled with a script) until you log in: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250786208?sortBy=rank

I've got my fair share of horror-stories with both OSes, I switched between dailying Mojave and Windows 10 for a big portion of my life. Nothing will ever top updating to Catalina, booting up Ableton Live and seeing all my paid plugins go from "working fine" to "completely unsupported" in the span of an update.

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

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Post by astral_drama »

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.

Tahoe crippled my Intel 2019 MBP and cost me plenty of time and incurred a lot of frustration until I gave up and reformat the ssd.

I am switching to Linux for both my desktop and laptop from here on out.

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

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Post by chasing0entropy »

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 11 REQUIRES the internet to operate. Install your OS from disk. Activate by phone(or don't bother...). Install seasoned updates from catalog. If the program wont specify the ports and servers it uses, DON'T USE IT AND DONT WRITE CODE FOR IT.

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