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I happily had one note for 8 years. One note 2017. Used it offline. All my notes.
Windows 10 put Microsoft 365 on my computer. Tried to sync a bunch of stuff too OneDrive. I said no. Still it made my desktop on one drive. It kept trying to sync documents. A constant nuisance.
This year I tried to save my taxes to my One Note files. I was told they were erased. I couldn’t imagine what was going on. They were on my computer, local and private. But no I would have to log into OneDrive and rebuild them if I wanted to use my files. I could see them. But I couldn’t open them, I couldn’t save new things, I couldn’t do anything, unless I logged into OneDrive.
I uninstalled Windows and installed Linux Mint 22.1. I ain’t going back no more.
This used to be called malware.
This is why I installed Linux once M$ started forcing AI everywhere. Stealing my data should not be the goal of any operating system.
The fact that all of this has been normalized so quickly shows how inefficient we are at stopping these attacks, and how defenseless society is to them. It’s such a shame.
Most of society doesn’t understand or doesn’t care.
Okay, I can play this game.
Opens control panel and uninstalls onedrive
Opens Appdata and Program Files folders and removes leftover onedrive bits
Opens Regedit and wipes out any remnants from thereWonderful. All set up now.
Then windows force installs another buggy update that also reinstalls onedrive for your convenience.
These “” seem to have fallen from around the word convenience, so I picked them up for you.
Thx fren
Fullscreen ad after update:
"HEY HAVE YOU TRIED ONEDRIVE 365 TOTAL PREMIUM FAMILY BUSINESS PLAN?!
(“No thanks” is in tiny 2 pt. font at the very bottom right, far from the “YES PLEASE” button, and only highlights after clicking that zone 3 times.)
Oh, I see you turned off Ad Personalization. Silly, that must’ve been a mistake. We fixed that for you!
…And you’re not using Edge…clearly that was a whoopsie. Fixed!"
MAKE SURE YOU OPEN ONEDRIVE AND UNSYNC EVERYTHING BEFORE YOU UNINSTALL IT
OneDrive loves to start moving files into the cloud without asking for permission, and if you remove OneDrive without checking this you may inadvertently delete them from your PC. Ask how I know
Use revounistaller next time, it does all that stuff for you
Geek Uninstaller as well
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I’d stop whining about it if they’d stop reinstalling it.
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Of course, why should users control their own systems? /s
Why were their comments removed?
The user chose to delete it, apparently.
I’m 99% sure it said “removed by moderators” before the user deleted it and it now says “deleted by user.”
Look, I’m just glad I have the technical skills to reconfigure my system.
Talking to my parents/grandparents/other family that aren’t tech savvy, they all complain about how one drive and Microsoft’s ads, and Edge keep butting into their lives, but then they have no idea how to mitigate the constant pings about those things.
I’m glad someone is enjoying Microsoft’s barrage of services tho.
No. Sounds like malware.
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
Always! Please tell me everything! :)
Okay.
He’s Finnish
Every. Single. Update.
Sheesh.
And Copilot
You know the answer to this problem.
Linux master race
Just finally made the jump this week. Keeping the dual boot to finish my masters in a known stable environment with all the only-necessary-for-school-programs and then gleefully deleting it as part of my graduation celebration.
Same here! I’ve been dabbling with various linux distros a week here and a week there over the past decade. Now that I’ve finally given up on the few games that need kernel-level anticheats (like LoL and Battlefield), I’m staying permanently as all my other games work great. I probably wouldn’t have jumped ship yet if steam (proton) wasn’t where it’s at now, though.
Since windows is on my smallest and slowest SSD I figured I’ll just keep the dual-boot option indefinitely, mainly for helping friends and family troubleshoot windows-bullshit, or for the (now very) rare moments I need an app that doesn’t exist or have an equivalent on linux.
I’ve finally given up on the few games that need kernel-level anticheats (like LoL and Battlefield)
That part was tough for me too. Same games! Well, it was tough but once they started this kernel-level stuff, I just cold-turkey dropped it. It’s so shady.
I give EasyAntiCheat a narrow-glared cautious pass because it shuts itself off when the game is no longer played, at least.
Riot’s garbage wanted to watch your machine at all times. Yeegh.
No shame in dual booting. I did that for a long time too. :) My Win10 has been getting crazy dusty though…
But the only thing I’m keeping it around for anymore instead of just VMing it is what’s left of WMR VR support that they dropped.
Thankfully Monado is doing really good work on that front. :D
I seem to be the only one who likes Onedrive
I used to think it was decent too before they started moving my files off my PC into the cloud without consent
I liked that it was easy to find on sale for like $30 a year, cheap 1tb backup. I’m getting more annoyed with Microsoft in general now though.
You are. Definitively. The Sole OneDrive Fan.
Yeah, my experience with it is that its…fine. Though I only use it on my work computer. I’m wondering if part of the issue is the home version ‘offering’ to hoover everything.
I fucking love onedrive. I have the family plan so everyone I’m close to gets the 1 terabyte version and it has saved me so much trouble. It has been one of my most reliable tools and I would say one of the best Windows products I have ever used. I can’t say I understand the problem with it, there are so many other issues with windows you could be mad about, why pick one of the few good things left about that ecosystem.
Two big ones for me:
- Don’t fucking call it “desktop”. I accidentally saved some files to my “one drive desktop” and it took forever to figure out where the hell my files went.
- I work everywhere… my house, office, client locations etc. I’m not always connected to the internet and NEED my files to be local to my laptop or I have to get my phone out and tether a network which is sometimes slow as hell.
One drive can eat a bag of dicks.
I suggest uninstalling or not signing in.
Does not work permanently. The only way is switching to proper software.
I turned it off permanently. There are hacks around the web if it becomes a problem. Apple has been doing this for years too. Are you saying Linux?
The amount of time needed and potential for malicious software makes it a nonstarter for business applications.
Of course I’m talking about Linux. Over 100 customers so far have migrated to proper software this year. I earn less because I can’t bill as many hours of support but it’s worth to see customers happy and they bring on new customers due to a good experience.
I’m in a creative field, Linux isn’t really an option. This isn’t black and white.
The amount of time needed and potential for malicious software makes it a nonstarter for business application
I have customers in the creative field. It is an option, just not for everyone, yet.
I suggest we agree on Linux being the better option for a variety of reasons with some exceptions which still need to be fixed.
Out of curiosity: which programs/hardware would you like to see working on Linux?
I’m not techy enough to do Linux either. If I had someone set it up for me, I use Blender, Affinity and Davinci Resolve (paid) on a regular basis. I think there’s a Blender for Linux, right?
Blender installs natively from Steam and works without any emulation of windows’ stuff. I noticed the download size is different for Linux, so I guess they cared to pack everything needed for it to work smoothly.
Some distro claimed they did everything to make UX with Resolve one of their targets, I believe it’s Nobara or maybe Bazzite. It’s not emulated either and installers are also provided by the devs of Resolve themselves.
Affinity have no plans to make a Linux version, so it’s always emulated and has workarounds like that (github) but I haven’t used their software even on Windows so Idk how the experience of using their products is. Coming to Linux, I got used to Inkscape for my vector needs and Krita\Photopea for raster gfx. I heard Darktable is a good Lightroom alternative if it’s up your valley.
I heard blender runs significantly better on linux.
Davinci Resolve has download for linux button on their website. I have not used the software, but wanted to point that out.
3D artist here! (And have been paid for it, so grain of salt that I’m not some legend from a AAAA studio but I’m not a poser either)
Blender is practically made for Linux. It’s fantastic. Using Blender Launcher has been a game changer too!
I’ve seen some threads about Affinity working. With strides with Proton and such, it might be getting there. :)
As the other user posted, DaVinci is also Linux friendly.
I’m not techy enough to do Linux either.
Well, you’re already on Lemmy, and if you’re using those programs you listed, you’re more than techy enough. A lot depends on the distro, but there’s plenty of friendly ones!
Currently I’m on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and love it. But Fedora, or maybe Pop!_OS or Mint might also appeal to you, depending on if you need/want the latest updates or a bit more solidly tested apps. (I like my new shiny features hehe)
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is technically a “rolling release” but they do very good package testing, so my experience with NVIDIA on it has gotten WAY better, after some hitches in the past, where I simply rolled back and waited for a better update while I used the current system. Every time that’s been Nvidia’s fault. The system is crazy stable.
If that scares you though, but you like chameleons, there’s OpenSUSE Leap, which hangs back a little for more stability. :)
…Installing Linux can be a little tough for beginners though! But there’s lots of good guides, and YouTube stuff and friendly community folks to help you there. Weekend project! Once you’ve done it once, you’ll have it. :)
My big lifehack for you is this (because I spent way too long geek-diving over this): Install with BTRFS as your file system, and install a program called Timeshift to handle “snapshots” you can roll back to if an update breaks or something. (Like Windows system restore) With BTRFS, snapshots can be made that only store differences, rather than exponentially taking up space with multiple literal copies of your whole system.
An awesome perk of OpenSUSE is that it does this automatically, and you have the option of using an earlier saved snapshot at boot time. :)
All these options have “app stores” but trust me, the command line isn’t as scary as it sounds to just search for software and update stuff! :)
Highly suggest playing with it on a VM or a spare hard drive and trying to do some tasks in it little by little. I like my Linux Blender experience MUCH better, personally.
The KDE desktop environment also feels super familiar and intuitive to Windows users, and has GUI options for tons of customization.
And goes without saying regardless of anything else: back up anything important to you. :p
Linux is really fun to play around with because it feels like it’s your machine, like getting to paint your bedroom walls and put holes in it and hang up shelves as opposed to renting a gray box you’re not allowed to mess with. I think you’d dig it. :)
I think the biggest hurdle one needs to overcome is prejudice. “Linux is for nerds”, " Linux is unstable", “Linux is slow”, " Linux is for hackers."
Its all BS. Of course, if you run hype Linux like arch, nix or the like you’ll most likely suffer. But mint or Ubuntu just work.
Blender has always been faster and better on Linux, affinity I don’t know and resolve I think also works well on Linux.
But please don’t believe me. Just get a USB stick, download Linux mint iso and use balena etcher to make a live system. Stick in, reboot, try it non destructively.
Windows setup is some bullshit. Just make a tickbox list you needy fucks
5 min startup time.
