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OneDrive and all of M365 is much nicer on Linux. It’s all just webpages that I use when I need them (pretty regularly) but that don’t interfere with anything else going on with my system.
As annoying as it is being set this way by default, it’s easily avoided by right clicking on the user folder to move ( documents|desktop|video|etc) folders in File Explorer -> Properties -> Location tab.
Then either: Type in: C:\users[your current user]\Documents (or which ever user folder being changed)
Or
Click Move and browse to and select the local folder you want to use.
Click apply, it will ask you if you want to move contents from the original location as well.
Click yes, and now your user folders will be and will stay local. I haven’t had any issues since and have had that set for years on my windows PCs.
Usually when I see the same meme reposted over and over, I start to downvote. But not this one. This one always gets an upvote from me.
Doo eh loauk like I kno whaaut “The Cloud” is?
I jast want a picture ofa ghatdang hawtdog
I saw this shit coming twenty years ago.
You want to be in control of your data? Silly human…
You know whats cool? Office programs like excel and word have an ‘autosave toggle’, and you know what it does? “Please log into one drive to enable autosave”.
Thats right, you cant have a local autosave, you MUST be saving to one drive.
Cool, thanks, no.…
Ctrl+S
Why do you continue to use software that abuses you? Try LibreOffice or even Google.
Fuck M$ 365, good old Office 2019.
Also fuck Teams, but that is a whole different story.
Getting OneDrive uninstalled fully is a nightmare. I got rid of it but it was still trying to sync. Like wtfff
Just install Linux at this point.
This seems to be the answer to all tech problems on Lemmy
Really it’s restraint to only offer it as a solution to tech problems, because install more linux is my solution to all problems.
It was for a client at work, so I couldn’t. I don’t know how to install Linux, either. I’m going to try once I get a charger for my old laptop. It isn’t a big priority though. I’ve been playing around with my Steamdeck in desktop mode to try to learn some Linux stuff and it’s been going okay.
I use ubuntu btw for many years now and it’s not as scary as it might sound. Quite user friendly at this point and you can just download the .iso and install it.
Remember ladies and gents. It’s not cloud storage it’s someone else’s computer.
“Let’s finish setting up windows (by asking you to subscribe to something you don’t need!)”
I want to save to onedrive, the one drive on my computer.
YOU HAVE A VIRUS!!
Download NORTON NOW!!!
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…don’t save everything on root.
You mean / or /root?
OneDrive usurping my folders and data, siphoning it to their servers without my permission (just like a virus) is exactly why I switched to Linux. It’s such a breath of fresh air not feeling like every update is trying to monetize and enshittify my computer more
For me it was being able to fully disable co-pilot and make sure that it stayed disabled. I asked it how to turn itself off and it hallucinated options that didn’t exist.
Honestly OneDrive replacing the local folders is what made me fully switch to Linux
auto-enabling that is, perhaps, the single most annoying thing they’ve done to windows. like you don’t even get a fucking choice when they do it, they just take your data… which adds ‘most frightening thing done’ as well.
and onedrive is also configured to cloud-first. you don’t even have your files on your hardware unless you go back and access them again (so they’re re-downloaded) or reconfigure onedrive to put them all back.
It seriously pissed me off so much. Like how could I possibly trust the OS after that? Literally just like a virus! Windows has pissed me off for a solid decade but that was waaay too far over the line for me to shrug it off yet again
My wife made a giant folder called garbage she shoves stuff that she copied out of Windows to put in OneDrive so it can’t fit her files when it decides to randomly start uploading again.
You can just uninstall it, you do realise that right? Making Onedrive fuck off and stay fucked off is pretty easy to do.
Download ISO from M$, wipe and install, uninstall One Drive, done. Betting you got fucked using the Dell or HP or whatever factory install.
Only enshittification I see is a single sentence on my lock screen. Don’t care, used a Windows crack, paid nothing.
Snaps…
No one forces you to use Snaps or a distro that enforces Snaps.
I suppose Ubuntu could count as an exception…
Luckily there are plenty of choices, Fedora is my personal fav
I do feel a bit like a Hank Hill when I rant about this or any other newer, unwelcome features. No, Outlook, I don’t want you to finish my sentences, you are wrong 100% of the time and I’d rather do it myself gosh dang it.
Switch to Linux, this shit doesn’t happen unless you set it up.
Shit doesn’t happen to me on Windows. Killed One Drive, done.
Been wondering if the hassle is from pre-installed versions vs. the “got my own ISO” version straight from M$. I get very few of the Windows complaints I see when I wipe it to factory and install vanilla Windows. Which anyone using Windows should do on a new machine.
Recently had to deal with creating a Windows 11 installation for someone else. I used a self-downloaded ISO and Rufus, and it still tried to pull that crap. OneDrive will create a system notification offering to enable it, and it’s similar enough to the various annoying Windows onboarding notifications that some people will accidentally click the confirmation thinking it’s the dismiss button.
I was moderately annoyed at the amount of stuff I had to either disable or uninstall when I got my Win 11 laptop, including One Drive, and getting rid of the news recommendations etc, but it’s definitely less hassle than installing a new OS.
Installing a new OS is not a hassle at all on this day and age. If you can click buttons with a mouse and read at least at a 6th grade level to follow instructions, you can install an OS.
And can you guarantee all the software and hardware I use for my job will work? Everything runs on Windows, it’s guaranteed to work. I wasn’t happy about all the crap I had to get rid of, but once it’s done it’s done.
It also doesn’t save to one drive unless you set it up.
Some people have jobs.
Yeah, people who know how to use Linux
All of my personal machines are Linux. I’m forced to use Windows for work, like nearly all knowledge workers. You’ll find out about it when you grow up.
I just made linux on the company laptop a requirement for me working at the current company. They told me, that I would have to install and maintain it myself, so I have Arch Linux on my company laptop. I like it a lot more than Debian, which I had to use at the previous company.
I have never used windows in a work environment so far.
The sad reality.
You’ll find out about it when you grow up.
I’m pretty sure, when I grew up, my aspirations were a bit higher than bragging about being a corporate drone.
When your value comes from the experience on your resume and not the stack of CompTIA certifications that you purchased while attending college, you get job offers that don’t come with a cubicle.
Yeah, they come with a spatula and a mop.
Tell me you’re divorced from the reality of a late-stage capitalist society without telling me, bro.
You’re right, there’s nothing that you can do but give in to the ghouls and take our allotted job, then spend our free time bitterly slinging shit at people who don’t follow in our rut.
There’s no change possible and anyone who pretends otherwise should be boo’d out of the conversation so we can all return to our miserable lives supporting the corporate boot with our collective necks.
How silly of me for aspiring to more. Thank you, wise young adult, for sharing the wisdom of your many hours looking at an-cap memes. I shall return to my spatula and mop, lest I upset the rest of the cattle.
You sound insufferable.
Stop, you’re hurting my feelings.
Skill issue
