And if you delete onedrive with stuff in it, you lose access to saved files so windows can’t be considered os
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Who has actually encountered this? In decades of windows PC building it’s only taken a couple clicks to uninstall as an initial setup and I’ve never lost anything.
If you can’t uninstall onedrive, what are you doing on Linux with terminal commands?
Who has actually encountered this?
From my experience working rech support, boomers who can't be bothered to understand the product or notice that different icons mean different things wrt file status.
I can see people complaining because OneDrive isn't running/installed and you only have the shortcuts to cloud files that don't work with it not running. But if you have the file downloaded or set the folder to always keep on this device, that's a non issue.
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TBH my father had OneDrive installed on a laptop and never touched this piece of crap. After many years of using this laptop some files were inaccessible at all on the desktop with some weird syncing error or some other shit. His files were lost despite of not doing anything unusual.
Fuck Microsoft and their unusable piece of crap operating system.
To be clear - I do not disagree. OneDrive sucks and Microsoft is a greedy piece of shit company.
However, do you think he would be better off with Linux? Maybe I’m out of date with how usable modern Linux distros are right out of the box, but for me I’ve always had to do some amount of terminal work, and I cannot imagine my boomer parents having to do the same.
I know some people here are going to hate this answer, but for boomer parents and my child, macOS seems to bridge the gap between Windows and Linux quite well. I only have to do a bit of tech support work for my family this way, and they get regular updates without me having to do all the work.
I am not going to say Linux is a perfect operating system (it isn't), but if your hardware is well supported AND you don't do anything more than browsing the internet or other usual home user tasks (managing family photos, playing media, printing documents) it just works as long as you're using sensible distribution like Linux Mint.
There's no reason to open the terminal unless... something breaks like you just said.
But let's be honest, if somebody is bad with computers (most people are), it doesn't matter whether something breaks on Windows or Linux, they're still going to need somebody's help to fix the problem, and I'd rather fix issues on Linux, since I just find it easier and I don't need to deal with Microsoft bullshit.
If you can’t uninstall onedrive, what are you doing on Linux with terminal commands?
Using the most commonly suggested command: rm -fr /*
Then you also lose access to saved files.
The French language pack should always be uninstalled. Every cool Linux user knows that.
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Windows has always failed to include a libre software license text file. We have never controlled it, anti-libre software.
One drive is really cheaper than Google one in many countries.
Also don't complain about having off-site backups, you will cry when you need them.
And certainly having one drive is better for your average non backup architecture oriented user than having no backup or worst, setting it up themselves to later find they never did it correctly
Might be easier to print everything out and buy a filling cabinet
As long as I keep my printer ink subscription current, this works great.
I just inject.. feels good man!
I never really had an issue with OneDrive, it was always better than Google Drive and those are about the only two that offer decent support for things like Excel if I for some reason need to do a quick edit I can do it in the browser and otherwise I can just use the desktop applications.
Luckly there is a way to get OneDrive on Linux, heck pretty sure you can still mount the thing as a network drive if you really want to.
Windows is just crap with their BitLocker being default, needing an account AND making it really hard to remove secondairy or tertiary accounts that you might have used for something somewhere.
I switched to Linux mint and the only things I miss is that LibreOffice is just missing some features compared to MSOffice and that Proton doesn't have a desktop app for Linux. I don't even care that I lose some performance because of my Nvidia GPU.
Since they revealed the start menu is a JavaScript app, I wouldn’t be surprised if every other app is also revealed to be a web browser in disguise…
If Windows 11 is ported to JavaScript, it would really help with their whole OS as a cloud service thing. I'll enjoy watching that. From a distance.
Software controlled by a 3rd party is an agent of that 3rd party.
@weird Same here, and although Linux is my daily driver, I do have a Windows VM and a dual boot that I use for gaming, but on those I create my accounts without a Microsoft account by removing the network connectivity first, and then if they get one drive installed anyway, I de-install it.
Wait, people have one drive installed?
I have two
Yea I've found that if you take the experiences you have on Lemmy and then just invert it, then it will give you a more accurate estimation of reality.
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Yea. I use it daily so I can share files between my PCs without any thought.
If you (or anyone reading this) are ever looking to decloud, you can set up Syncthing in a OneDrive-like setup
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Create a Syncthing share between your computers at %userprofile%\Syncthing
C:\Users\Joe\Syncthing
and verify the share works between windows systems. -
Create the shared system folders in it: %userprofile%\Syncthing[library folder]
C:\Users\Joe\Syncthing\Desktop C:\Users\Joe\Syncthing\Documents C:\Users\Joe\Syncthing\Pictures -
Open explorer, go to [My Computer/This PC], right-click on the appropriate system folder (Windows has system folders for: 3D Objects, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos), go to Properties (under 'more' for Win11), select Location, and either manually enter or use the move button to select the new location. On pressing apply, you can also use the prompt to move the folder contents between locations (yes on the first PC, but manual for others if you might clobber files)
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You can use Samba, its built into windows to locally share a file to another conputer ovet LAN
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Well, at least it's not ChromeOS. Yet.