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[-] LifeLemons@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago

Lol why exactly we all hate one drive? I forgor, never used it actually.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 39 points 3 weeks ago

If you don't know, you either haven't run Win 11 or don't realize the files on your desktop have been uploaded to OneDrive.

[-] LifeLemons@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago

Wait files get uplaoded to OneDrive?? I always delete the onedrive whenever installing windows (in a vm btw) bruh

[-] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, especially if using MS Office.

[-] xenspidey@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

You still have to turn that on.

[-] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago

My school uses MS Office and it autosaved to onedrive by default. This got enabled once logged in to your MS account, which we needed for e.g. Teams.

[-] xenspidey@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago

For work or school stuff sure, those are org settings.

[-] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Piatro@programming.dev 13 points 3 weeks ago

In my case my partner has a Windows 10 surface laptop. It's perfectly functional and does what she needs it to do, but Windows 10 is dying next year, so I need to find some solution that is user friendly (meaning GUI-based in this case) to maintain her access to her OneDrive, or we throw away a perfectly good laptop to buy a slightly newer one. Besides the e-waste it's just a waste of money. It makes some business sense, why make it easy to move away from windows? Except it also sucks on anything that isn't a windows desktop, so they just expect people to put up with a subpar service essentially because their business users don't have much choice. Dropbox was better 10 years ago than OneDrive is now, in terms of platform availability and usability.

Note: I'm aware we can access OneDrive and office via a browser, however it's not the same as native and feels clunky. Throwing Linux on it and using a browser is probably going to be our solution if I can't get rclone to work in a way she'll be happy with.

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

There was quite a bit of initial config to do, but there is Linux OneDrive Client, and OneDriveGUI

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I read an article that MS has backed off almost entirely on Win 11's requirements. Now it's a checkbox, "Your hardware isn't supported so you accept responsibility if you have problems."

As long as it's newer than Pentium 4, you are probably fine.

Win 11 now only needs popcnt (a newer instruction added 15 years ago) and sse4.2.

[-] Piatro@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

I think my limiting factor is TPM 2.0 which I believe isn't supported by the device but is required by windows 11

[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You can modify the Windows 11 iso to bypass the requirements. You can tick a checkbox in Rufus when creating the install media to have it do it for you.

[-] Piatro@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well after looking further it's actually the processor isn't supported in general so Linux it is! It's going to be a hard sell to my partner who doesn't like using office 365 on the browser because "it screws up templates". If even Microsoft's tools screw up I can't imagine libre office would do any better so that's an even harder sell... Sigh.

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

And popular distros like: Ubuntu,Fedora,etc your Cpu should be Atleast 64Bit and have atleast 3-4gb of ram

[-] voracread@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

It was in my news feed 2 days ago and as is the nature of the modern Internet, today I cannot find the article using Google.

[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

If you're going to try Linux, there's obviously a ton of great options but I can definitely recommend ZorinOS for anyone unfamiliar with Linux.

I replaced Windows on my Mom's computer with Zorin and she absolutely loves it. Its UI is simple and clean and the OS just works.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

Might also look into https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver !

I think both KDE and GNOME desktop environments might have integration with OneDrive as an option in their respective file browsers.

I remember KDE could work with Google Drive in that casual "download when you need it" way, rather than the traditional "sync mirrored copies" way.

Personally I'd say KDE is also a fantastic desktop environment for coming from Windows with little friction. I run OpenSUSE Tumbleweed personally, but Fedora has a KDE "spin" and I think Zorin uses it by default.

Hope this is helpful :)

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Mostly because it constantly forces itself on you and is difficult to disable or remove even if you take several minutes to attempt to get rid of it. Every fucking time you try to save a file in office it defaults to save to one drive, or at least that was the case for a time.

[-] DoomHorizons@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

I had it try to automatically upload all the porn on my PC once

Dunno how that happened but they sure as hell made an enemy that day

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