You may need to provide a reason now when quitting OneDrive
You may need to provide a reason now when quitting OneDrive
Some OneDrive users may get a prompt now that asks them to provide a reason when they try to quit the OneDrive application on Windows.
It's bullshit how the entire OS keeps trying to force you into saving everything to OneDrive when you're just trying to save a file to your hard drive. They're bordering on dark patterns with how they try to trick people.
Bordering on dark patterns? Windows is riddled with ads and makes countless unknown connections when online. It's literally a Trojan OS. I don't understand how far ms has to push before its users realize that they are being mugged.
I tried a well-supported Linux distro over the summer, and it's severely not-compatible with my GPU. An OS that crashes every 10 minutes with the FOSS drivers and runs slower than continental drift with the proprietary drivers isn't a viable alternative to Windows. At some point in the future I might run through a bunch of other distros to see if there's one that is stable with my hardware, but I honestly don't have enough time in my life to do that right now. I went back to Windows because I could install it in an hour and be done with it for the next year or two.
There are people who have the patience to continuously fight with their OS in order to get it to do what they want it to... but they're a small subset of the population. Most people just want their computer to work, and until Linux has that (or until we completely reorganise society so that everyone has both the time and money to be able to spend time making their computer work rather than using the computer), there's not going to be a rush of people abandoning Windows.
I love the idea of Linux, but was not happy with the stability and support at this point in time. I'm more computer-literate than the average person, and even using a well-supported Linux distro, I found the documentation haphazard and in some cases plain wrong (or severely out of date?) If I struggled with it, I certainly wouldn't expect people less comfortable with computers to have any capacity to install or run Linux. For all Windows' flaws (of which there are many), it makes owning and using a computer easy, allowing you to just get on with the work you need to do.
The second that one gpu can do the thing where your system is linux but you sandbox a windows vm with work software... I will switch that exact second.
It is actually dark patterns. The number of times I've saved a file and thought I'd lost it only to find it in OneDrive is infuriating.
Wait for the 11 LTSC release next year, it will have this bullshit removed.
Is there an easy way to get this version as a normal citizen? I remember needing Windows 10 in my previous job a few times a year, and we spent quite a while with our office manager to get me a license and get the LTSC version of Windows installed with the key. It worked eventually, but was definitely trickier than a normal Windows installation.
That to be said, my partner still uses that Windows version and it is definitely the right thing to use, if needing Windows.
It's the same as Apple devices. You save something and it puts it where it can be found the same way you saved it...but not necessarily where you think it should be or where it makes sense. The entire ecosystem (both of them) are designed to be insular - you stay in the box and things just work. Yes, people have lost stuff in both cases - usually through their own fault, or the fault of someone who doesn't actually understand how the system was set up to work.
If we treated MS the way most users treat Apple, there would be little concern. You turn on the device, do things using the MS core apps, and when you go to set up a new device all your stuff auto-populates. It's just that Windows users tend to muck around with things, use non-Microsoft software, and - especially long time users - expect things to be where they used to be. In trying to make their system more streamlined (and Apple-like, both insular and user-friendly), but allowing the system to be used in a more traditional, manual fashion, you can make things go bad. It's like adding an automatic transmission to a car but leaving the manual clutch - it can only end in tears.
Apple's strategy with it is actually evil though. Sell you low amounts of storage at high prices with little to no options to upgrade, then force you to pay for cloud storage when inevitably the budget iPhone 64gb isn't enough.
I'm assuming my area is somewhat similar to others in how technology is partly a fashion statement, but these are also people not rich enough to buy more than 128gb phones. I have a feeling that Apple knows this and does it by design to funnel people into their cloud storage.
The insane part is that they do it with all of their products and that people actually use it. In some cases it makes sense, but for the majority of people it's buying a subscription to use your phon- er, computers storage.
Here are the answers you're allowed to choose from:
- I don’t want OneDrive running all the time
- I don’t know what OneDrive is
- I don’t use OneDrive
- I’m trying to fix a problem with OneDrive
- I’m trying to speed up my computer
- I get too many notifications
- Other
I'm going with
Otherand in the text box I'm telling Microsoft' SELECT * FROM sys.database_role_members--and going from there.No, I don't think I will.
My comment on the topic was removed from c/lemmyshitpost. Too genuine a shitpost for them, I guess.
What a bunch of bs. Eta: on the part of Micro$oft.
Is "suck my dick capitalist techbros" food enough?
I always uninstall OneDrive after a windows reinstall and I've had zero problems with seeing it after. If you don't use it, remove it?