Is windows even an os anymore?

It moves your library locations when you install it, so virtually everything that uses a UsersUsername}file path} instead of the library’s referenced location will break. Oblivion Remastered players recently encountered this, because the game defaults to saving in a hard path instead of a referenced path. If you have OneDrive installed, the Documents folder exists at UsersUsername}OneDriveDocuments. But the game defaults to saving in UsersUsername}Documents. But Steam uses the referenced library location. So when Steam tries to back up your saves to the cloud, it finds an empty saves folder.

Second, it defaults to backing up your desktop. Likely because many users just default to saving everything to their desktop. Which means you end up with a bunch of broken/duplicate shortcuts on each subsequent machine you use, because they all get cloud-imported from other computers.

1. Uploading
2. Downloading

Name two capacities that it fails in

Not being a Microsoft product, not giving people something to complain about.

I have to use OneDrive everyday and use it to sync my work files and project files in SharePoint, and I'm regularly working on files with other people, generate reports to a synced folder, and retrieve files from others/external users and don't half half the complaints as a lot on here (but that is my main complaint lol).

Literally the only issue I have with it is with external sharing. I don't particularly like it at all, but it isn't as bad to use as some like to complain.

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.

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.

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.

Welcome to discussions about Windows on Lemmy. Rather than learning how to properly use Windows, a lot of people around here will blame operator error on the OS and just jump ship to Linux at the first stumbling block. They'll claim something incredibly simple to work around simply isn't possible.

If you frequent computer discussion around here you'll find yourself asking this a lot: "If you couldn't handle [complicated to access but easy to do Windows thing], how in the hell are you managing Linux?"

And a lot of the most outspoken against Windows here legitimately have not used it in over five years, yet speak as if they are up to date experts.

Relatedly: 99% of the "The sky is falling! Microsoft adds more ads to Windows!" articles thrown around on Lemmy are shit that is managed by ONE singular Settings menu option for all of them that (despite everyone's insistence to the contrary) does NOT get silently reset during updates. But you'll see everyone talking about the ads like they're completely unavoidable and re-enable themselves if you press spacebar too hard.

Linux is awesome, 99% of the issues to work around in Windows simply shouldn't exist in the first place, and don't there.

But it's still far from a smooth experience for non-technical users.

That said, for people who don't want to learn how something works and just want it to work, there's a compelling argument that copying and pasting random terminal lines off the internet is faster than trying to follow instructions guiding you through an unfamiliar UI. It's more opaque as what it's doing, and a lot easier to just fuck your install, but it can appear like less work in the short term.

For people open to learn though, I maintain that truly learning how to manage your linux distro install (instead of just being a copy paste warrior) is about as difficult as learning how to manage a Windows install properly.

It's probably coming from Microsoft Office and has been around since at least 2023 January.

You never have issues with OneDrive unless you accidentally forget to remove it. People lose files because of this shit.

This is such a pile of cheap elitism. So, the very need to figure out how to remove what you didn't ask for does not bother your club of computer geniuses?

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

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

1. Create the shared system folders in it: %userprofile%\Syncthinglibrary folder]
   \ C:\Users\Joe\Syncthing\Desktop C:\Users\Joe\Syncthing\Documents C:\Users\Joe\Syncthing\Pictures
2. Open explorer, go to [My Computer/This PC], right-click on the appropriate system folder (Windows has libraries 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)

You can use Samba, its built into windows to locally share a file to another conputer ovet LAN

You can roll your onedrive back to a previous point in time in the event of a ransomware, technical issue or user mistake that causes issue.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/restore-your-onedrive-fa231298-759d-41cf-bcd0-25ac53eb8a15

OneDrive does not do full disk synchronization to my knowledge.

I'm not doubting that happened but i have no idea how one drive would nuke your folders. When there is a difference in time between local and cloud one drive forces you to manually choose which version of the file should stay. What's Whole disk sync is that like sync the entire c drive why would someone do that?

I do not understand most of your points at all. They dont seem like real onedrive issues and instead come off as internal issues of configurations and bad process.

Check that again. OneDrive is not a backup application, it is a cloud storage application. By default it syncs folders. If you open OneDrive on the web and delete a file there, it will be deleted on the computer on your drive. It's not backing up your folder, it is replacing it. The internet is filled with testimonies of people failing to understand this basic difference and getting confused about why their files are deleted. Most other cloud services do one way backup by default. MS does a poor job of explaining this behavior and just push for the use of OneDrive blindly.