• JackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 hour ago

    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

      • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
        3·
        49 minutes ago

        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.

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
    13·
    10 hours ago

    “Let’s finish setting up windows (by asking you to subscribe to something you don’t need!)”

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    24·
    12 hours ago

    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.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      12 hours ago

      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.

      • pivot_root@lemmy.world
        11·
        10 hours ago

        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.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
        5·
        10 hours ago

        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.

        • dustyData@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 hour ago

          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.

        • ThePrimitive@lemmy.world
          1412·
          10 hours ago

          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.

          • django@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            4·
            6 hours ago

            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.

          • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
            36·
            7 hours ago

            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.

  • Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    822·
    16 hours ago

    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

    • CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      9 hours ago

      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.

    • airbussy@lemmy.oneEnglish
      221·
      14 hours ago

      Honestly OneDrive replacing the local folders is what made me fully switch to Linux

      • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
        13·
        12 hours ago

        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.

      • Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        8·
        12 hours ago

        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

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      9·
      14 hours ago

      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.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
      12·
      8 hours ago

      You can just uninstall it, you do realise that right? Making Onedrive fuck off and stay fucked off is pretty easy to do.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      12 hours ago

      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.

  • DannyBoyEnglish
    414·
    15 hours ago

    Do I look like I know what a jay peg is?

    Also yes this is crazy. I would recommend installing Linux to fix this issue.

  • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
    302·
    15 hours ago

    Quick vent. My job introduced OneDrive and cloud shit through Microsoft. Yeah. I still have to tell my computer to save on itself. I’m not using OneDrive.

    I hear my coworkers bitch about it all the time. It’s not syncing. I can’t save or change this or that. I can’t find it when I’m trying to open it. Why is this green or yellow? What’s up with this check? They always ask me for help because I’m the younger one that knows more about computers. I respond that I don’t do cloud shit. I want to know where my info is, but they keep on wanting me to figure it out for them.

    I guess cloud computing is my old man yelling at clouds line.

    • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
      182·
      15 hours ago

      I just disable it on system boot. Company hates that I’m not using OneDrive…

      I’ll throw crap in SharePoint, but I also won’t use that dogshit ‘service’ either.

      I don’t want people touching my reports. It’s my shit. View only.

    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
      51·
      12 hours ago

      I absolutely hate OneDrive and similarly to you would go out of my way to save on my device for work. We had to upgrade to win11 recently and now all my documents, pictures, etc automatically redirect to OneDrive… :| this is an “improvement” according to them.

      Also the amount of copilot that’s being pushed on us. I know AI can do lots of things but holy God let me read my own fucking emails.

    • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
      62·
      15 hours ago

      I guess cloud computing is my old man yelling at clouds line.

      Not necessarily. Cloud storage is great for off-site backups and collaborative working on projects, but Onedrive, 365 and the rest of the Microsoft stuff is the problem. It’s clunky, overloaded and generally a pain in the ass to manage. It is successful mostly because everyone already works with Microsoft stuff, especially their office suite, and Microsoft makes it really annoying (and in some places difficult) to go around it.

      At my last job I had to implement and manage a lot of 365 and Sharepoint and I find my private Nextcloud more comfortable (and there are hosters who offer Nextcloud as a partially managed service so that in a company environment you’d mostly just need to administer users and small, easy stuff). If for usability alone I’d put Google’s cloud services and collaborative office environment before Microsoft’s (they’re still both shitty megacorps and I recommend staying away from both, though).