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Is windows even an os anymore? (sub.wetshaving.social)
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[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

As a Linux person forced to use OneDrive at work, OneDrive sucks in almost every capacity. Why would I pay MS for a service that fails at its core objectives?

[-] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago

Name two capacities that it fails in

[-] [email protected] 62 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It moves your library locations when you install it, so virtually everything that uses a Users\{Username}\{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 Users\{Username}\OneDrive\Documents. But the game defaults to saving in Users\{Username}\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.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The moving of libraries is what really irks me. I refuse to install it. Fucking pissed me off when lots of shit broke. Had to use junctions to fix it.

ALSO. When coding with powershell and installing modules in user context... It throws them in documents. Which gets usurped my OneDrive.

So now my powershell modules freak out due to being locked/syncing.

WHY MICROSOFT??

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