I have never even heard of the my saves filder and can't find anything about it from searching, do you mean Documents/My Games? And yes we are not talking about saves, we're also talking about config files and potential mods and potential screenshots. Some devs also put logs next to saves in case a game crashed or misbehaved, especially in the case of moddable games. Even non-technical people can read a log and see file not found. I did this when I was 7 years old and had no clue about hidden files or appdata or even how to GET to the C drive, because games just wrote to documents or I would never find anything.
Microsoft has NOTHING to do with where a developer decides his application will shit its data.
Yes and I also have nothing to do with someone turning their car into my lane, but I'm not going to smash into them and say well I was in the right. Microsoft may be fully justified in thinking nothing is in there besides documents that someone actually wants backed up, and they can be fully justified as every user has their games break. Do you know why people blame onedrive and not the game? Because they actually wanted the game.
Because none of that is important for the user, unless they're troubleshooting. And if they're troubleshooting, they either know where to look already, or they're googling to find out anyway.
Config files and mod files are unimportant to the user...? And again troubleshooting as a non-poweruser is still possible if the log says "file not found."
Yes I disabled it when it was hard coded and I sure wish it was job done. It kept running the service even though I had disabled it and then on a later update fully re enabled itself, so my choices are be really confused and have games be broken until I figure out onedrive is back or fully delete it and have a broken file manager.
Yeah, that's not how computers work.
Really so if I go on my pc right now and type for i in 0..10000 sleep 1 echo test >> ~/Documents/terriblespot.txt will this cause massive lag spikes in games? What about if I write to /boot just for fun, surely it won't work just fine because it's my computer not Microsoft's.
What you said about opening onedrive is just not accurate, when you first install windows you get a tiny pop-up that says something along the lines of "keep all your files synced in one place!" And I as well as most people click the x. So I was actually just supposed to know that meant "we are actually syncing your folders unless you specifically say not to."
I'm sure onedrive is perfectly fine for work applications, but for anyone that plays any games ever I have told them always uninstall or disable onedrive ASAP. I had actually forgotten that it can lock your documents folder and break games (and I believe other programs too) https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims3/comments/y1mhf8/psa_if_you_arent_able_to_save_on_windows_11_22h2/