I also love how the safe prompts in office 365 are putting βthis computerβ in quotation marks.
I remember when it was C:/ then it became βthis computerβ and stuff, to make you forget you have hardware at all or so I feel.
If Microsoft could make you lease your computer and turn it into a terminal, they absolutely would.
Thereβs advantages to saving documents to the cloud for backups.
Severely limiting that space by default and then preventing you from saving files when it runs out is horseshit. Half the computer problems Iβve fixed recently are all caused by OneDrive running out of space.
My sister wanted to know why her Sims saves were disappearing. Turns out OneDrive was full and the saves were being backed up to it. No space = no more saving apparently.
Because they know most people wonβt move to Linux. Most people will stick with whatever absolute garbage they know and will just be annoyed when things continue to degrade, but they wonβt leave.
On the other hand saves shouldnβt be saved into fucking documents folder in the first place. Or it shouldnβt be used by any other program unless explicitly allowed to. The only time I see people actually using Documents folder according to its purpose is at work.
Honestly this practice comes down to Windows never standardizing a location for user generated files related to a program. We might finally be there with appdata but even that is poorly standardized (what goes into ~/appdata/roaming/ vs ~/appdata/local/ etc.) and most backup software ignores despite game saves being very important. My Saved Games still exists but itβs more surprising when a game actually uses it than anything. And of course really old software would just store the saves right next to the install files, therefore requiring the program to have admin access, and running everything as admin is always a great idea.
Well if you fill up the space you pay for⦠What is OneDrive supposed to do if you try to add more files? How would it pick which ones to upload to the cloud and which ones not to? It would be pretty annoying if it just let you keep adding data locally but stopped uploading it imo.
It should stop uploading new files, and visibly notify the user that their cloud storage is full.
It should not start silently deleting your data after you save something, especially because OneDrive likes to βreplaceβ your Documents folder as it were.
Imagine you work really hard on some important document, save it, and then OneDrive lovingly deletes it for you with no way to get it back because you ran out of cloud storage. Instead of, you know, just keeping it stored on your local storage and telling you it canβt upload it?
Because thatβs what it does now. Just deletes your stuff. OneDrive loses you more files than it saves. Terrible product and always the first thing I uninstall.
Iβm gonna need a source for that.
Iβm really sceptical that OneDrive syncs your documents, deletes them from your computer and then deletes them from OneDrive. That sounds bizarre.
This makes me so immediately enraged every single time.
Linux doesnβt make you jump through this hoop π§π«‘πΊπΈ
You know, I use Linux at work but use windows at home. Iβve been thinking of switching for a while. I think the thing that is going to push me over the edge is the difficulty that I have saving a file to my own god damned computer.
I love automatic backups to the cloud WHEN I CHOOSE TO USE THEM! Iβm tired of Microsoft essentially holding my data for ransom, though.
Welp, theyβre never going to stop, and theyβre always going to get more intrusive. Linux is better than it has ever been! Give it a whirl. I suggest Pop!_OS for people who donβt want to mess with their system, and Arch for people who love messing with their system.
Edit: Fedora is a nice middle-ground.
Iβm on Garuda. For gaming, I think itβs an ideal option. Itβs Arch based but comes with everything set up for gaming, and tools to install whatever you may need. I think it comes with the AUR set up automatically too (or itβs an option thatβs easy at least), which isnβt necessary, but it does have some things you may want/need for modding and certain (very few) non-steam games. I think RuneLite for Runescape I got from the AUR, or something like that.
I havenβt tried Pop, and Fedora is alright though I personally didnβt care for it as much.
You can make cloud backups whenever you choose on Linux whenever you want, even to OneDrive.
So far Iβve never had Bazzite nor Mint nor any of my software there force me to put things anywhere.
Just know the Microsoft Office suite and Adobeβs software donβt really work on Linux systems.
I have a cheap laptop that I got solely for school to run their anti cheat Spyware for online tests. I hadnβt turned it on since I updated it and it forced me to make a hotmail/outlook account or I couldnβt use the laptop to take my test. Assholes almost made me late for it. Fuck microsoft.
If i can get guild wars 2 to run on Linux I wonβt need windows anymore
Edit : sorry for the confusion. I have linux running. The next step is to work on gw2. Itβs the only thing remaining.
May I ask for further clarification on when you tried when running the game?
I havenβt tried Guild Wars 2 on Linux however it seems like it works according to ProtonDB.
Sorry I should have been more clear. I have mint linux installed. The speakers and the headset works. When I get a chance I need to work on gw2. Itβs the last step. Sorry for the confusion.
It runs without a problem via steam for me on Linux mint. I donβt know how to do whatever setup steam does manually, but you can just launch it through steam and sign in with your anet account. (Thereβs a config option to open the login window instead of using your steam account for login)
Just add it to Steam/Lutris and go, itβs not worth an entire blog post or video about.
Copilot has determined that itβs better to save your files in OneDrive.
Oops, one of your jpegs violates Disneyβs copyright.
Authorities have been notified and your Microsoft account was deactivated.
All your files are gone, your email account is gone, your Windows PC will shut down now.
I swear, at my next job Iβll ask for a Mac. We were forced to switch to windows 11 by our outsourced IT MSP, at my current job and it wasnβt pretty.
If I can help it my future windows experience will be spinning up a VM on my proxmox host, and killing it off after use. No personal files will be going on there.