• Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    18·
    2 months ago

    I happily had one note for 8 years. One note 2017. Used it offline. All my notes.

    Windows 10 put Microsoft 365 on my computer. Tried to sync a bunch of stuff too OneDrive. I said no. Still it made my desktop on one drive. It kept trying to sync documents. A constant nuisance.

    This year I tried to save my taxes to my One Note files. I was told they were erased. I couldn’t imagine what was going on. They were on my computer, local and private. But no I would have to log into OneDrive and rebuild them if I wanted to use my files. I could see them. But I couldn’t open them, I couldn’t save new things, I couldn’t do anything, unless I logged into OneDrive.

    I uninstalled Windows and installed Linux Mint 22.1. I ain’t going back no more.

      • maniclucky@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        Just finally made the jump this week. Keeping the dual boot to finish my masters in a known stable environment with all the only-necessary-for-school-programs and then gleefully deleting it as part of my graduation celebration.

        • Regdok@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          Same here! I’ve been dabbling with various linux distros a week here and a week there over the past decade. Now that I’ve finally given up on the few games that need kernel-level anticheats (like LoL and Battlefield), I’m staying permanently as all my other games work great. I probably wouldn’t have jumped ship yet if steam (proton) wasn’t where it’s at now, though.

          Since windows is on my smallest and slowest SSD I figured I’ll just keep the dual-boot option indefinitely, mainly for helping friends and family troubleshoot windows-bullshit, or for the (now very) rare moments I need an app that doesn’t exist or have an equivalent on linux.

    • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, my experience with it is that its…fine. Though I only use it on my work computer. I’m wondering if part of the issue is the home version ‘offering’ to hoover everything.

      • Stull@lemmy.world
        41·
        2 months ago

        I fucking love onedrive. I have the family plan so everyone I’m close to gets the 1 terabyte version and it has saved me so much trouble. It has been one of my most reliable tools and I would say one of the best Windows products I have ever used. I can’t say I understand the problem with it, there are so many other issues with windows you could be mad about, why pick one of the few good things left about that ecosystem.

        • TehWorld@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Two big ones for me:

          1. Don’t fucking call it “desktop”. I accidentally saved some files to my “one drive desktop” and it took forever to figure out where the hell my files went.
          2. I work everywhere… my house, office, client locations etc. I’m not always connected to the internet and NEED my files to be local to my laptop or I have to get my phone out and tether a network which is sometimes slow as hell.

          One drive can eat a bag of dicks.