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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 75 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

By now it's a sloperating system full of slopvertisement and slopware

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

sloperating system

Also, with the foisted AI integration, this is just a brilliant way to describe things right now.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (20 children)

As a Linux person forced to use OneDrive at work, OneDrive sucks in almost every capacity. Why would I pay MS for a service that fails at its core objectives?

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[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

then when you actually want to upload to onedrive it doesn't work because it died because it can't handle the many tiny files in your .venv folder

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Alternatively it's already full because steam workshop mods obviously need to be backed up in my personal cloud

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

My 1.2gb of Fallout 4 saves take priority

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

It's becoming more and more a subscription services hub and ad platform.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (5 children)

OneDrive is a big part of why I finally made the switch.

[–] Igilq@szmer.info 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And if you delete onedrive with stuff in it, you lose access to saved files so windows can’t be considered os

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

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?

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

The French language pack should always be uninstalled. Every cool Linux user knows that.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] dingus@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I just turned off and uninstalled One Drive when I got Windows 11 and have had zero issues

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just turned off and uninstalled windows when I got Windows 8 and have had zero issues.

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[–] termaxima@programming.dev 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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…

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] whatyousaidontwitter@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I thought everyone turned it off after setting up windows

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

I sure did once I finally realized what was going on. It was a pain in the ass to do but I was able to do it. Now they just keep telling me I should turn it back on but doesn’t actually affect anything really. They’re just all “oh man you really should back up all your stuff! It’s a risk if you don’t! You should definitely do so with OneDrive!”

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[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Am I the only person in the world that managed to delete the shit off of windows that I didn't want and never have it come back?

Even after updates?

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

No, the rest of us just stopped responding to these threads. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it think.

The kinds of people who repost this meme over and over again, are the kinds of people who don't do updates, and the reason why updates are automatic by default on Windows. They don't know nor care to know what is going on with their os, they just have an idea of what they expect will happen, and when something different happens, they complain and post memes about it.

Of course, not every single person is like that, there are and always will be exceptions

The hard truth is that most people don't know and don't care what's running on their computer until it gets in their way.

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[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Windows has always failed to include a libre software license text file. We have never controlled it, anti-libre software.

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wait, people have one drive installed?

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[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Yea. I use it daily so I can share files between my PCs without any thought.

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

If you (or anyone reading this) are ever looking to decloud, you can set up Syncthing in a OneDrive-like setup

  1. Create a Syncthing share between your computers at %userprofile%\Syncthing
    C:\Users\Joe\Syncthing
    and verify the share works between windows systems.

  2. 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

  3. 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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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Might be easier to print everything out and buy a filling cabinet

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As long as I keep my printer ink subscription current, this works great.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

Software controlled by a 3rd party is an agent of that 3rd party.

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

Windows is the virus

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