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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Been helping with multiple friends with their laptops. Windows 11 systems and the directories are all fucked up. Windows wants everything synced to Onedrive and so when you click on downloads or something it goes to onedrive's downloads and so forth. It's fucking hell I have to delete onedrive and find \documents again and try to pin it in the file explorer side panel to make it so it's useful again.

Isn't this operating system supposed to be noob friendly? If they figure out how to go back to windows 10 22h2 then they can probably find out where the directories are already.

Btw, all these computers are stock and not modified.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

They want your subscription. They don't care about friendly. They make it confusing on purpose, since less knowledgeable people will just sign up for the paid plan. It's a dark pattern.

[-] Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz 9 points 9 months ago

This is nearly identical to the Apple ecosystem. Everything gets virtually pathed and saved to your iCloud account unless you direct it to do otherwise. Oh, and you can't manage iOS to do otherwise, short of disabling the iCloud uploads. In Windows, for people who blindly (or intentionally) choose OneDrive for their cloud service, it's essentially transparent. I'm not saying it's right, but for the pc-as-an-appliance crowd, it's pretty smooth when it works.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Is it the year of the Linux Desktop yet?

Because of the enshittification of Windows and MacOS, we're already at the point where Linux is actually the easiest to use desktop OS. Winning by standing still.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's a terrible idea. Say your pc torrents 2 TB of media, I'm not gonna pay Windows for 2 TB of onedrive storage. What of those people in engineering and comp sci who have massive files of projects and don't need to sync to onedrive because they already use backups to github or otherwise?

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

You just save them outside of the normal folders of documents, pictures, videos, music, and downloads that Onedrive syncs.

Or you adjust your Omedrive settings.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah I know how to do this. I don't even use Windows but yeah, it's just annoying that Microsoft forces you to do all this to make everything usable.

[-] Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Say your pc torrents 2 TB of media

those people in engineering and comp sci who have massive files of projects

Neither of those people are using windows as an appliance.

because they already use backups to github

This is where everyone who loves Linux - and nearly everyone who works in IT/CompSci fails to understand the rest of the world. If you have to do anything from the command line - or if anything is easier from the command line - you've excluded roughly 90% of the population from calling it "easy". You may as well tell someone how to adjust the fuel mix in their carburetor or set up a bridgeport mill to make a quick replacement for the plastic buckle that broke on their backpack (and much stronger/durable to boot!). Not only does nobody today want to, they've probably only seen exist in a movie.

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