• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    For IT purposes, i fuckin’ love it. Forced sync of Desktop and Documents folders for users, all the email is server-side. no more bitching about data loss. “Did you use one drive like you said you would when you clicked “OK” to that user agreement?”

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      8·
      7 months ago

      In a professional context (e.g. work/office), O365 and related technologies make a lot of sense. It solves all kinds of real problems, especially for a remote/hybrid workforce. It’s by no means the best answer for any one application, but it’s a very comprehensive platform and gets the job done.

      For the home user? Constantly forcing OneDrive into everyone’s field of view on OS upgrades is intrusive advertising for a thing nobody asked for.

    • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      My favourite part is when you log into your work PC, and a bunch of things you deleted 6 months ago have re-appeared on your desktop.

      • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        7 months ago

        My favorite part was when my laptop charger crapped out yesterday, and instead of syncing the super important files that I was working in, and I needed today, onedrive crashed… Piece of shit software

    • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      7 months ago

      Exactly. It’s very useful in a managed environment. It’s performance overheads suck though.Way too much CPU usage.

      But it should not be part of Windows, only office 365 or as an optional 3rd party service.

      Same story with icloud on Apple and Google Drive on Android.

      No free version of a paid cloud service should be included in any OS. It should require a separate opt-in sign up. Have we not learnt anything from the Microsoft antitrust cases.

      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4·
        7 months ago

        Absolutely. The average consumer device shouldn’t have any kind of internet dependancies baked into the OS, IMO. It should always be installed/enabled separately. There’s still vast swathes of the US that don’t have reliable internet.

      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        I’d normally agree, but keeping it tied to AD is nice, and data exfiltration is a major enough concern for my environment that third-party cloud storage is thoroughly blocked.

      • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
        0·
        7 months ago
        1. Fuck those things.
        2. The main problem with them is not just the software, which is awful, but that it means you’re working at Amazon.
        • Sporkbomber@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          I’m lucky enough to be working with rather than for, but it does mean interacting with their crappy programs and work culture. Going back to using teams is a relief.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
      0·
      7 months 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.mlEnglish
        0·
        7 months ago

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

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    omg fr. Literally 2 days ago I had to Google an issue and fix it because APPARENTLY OneDrive wanted to randomly store some terraria files and would cause the game to crash anytime you try to load a game. That’s bad enough as is but the game would say “Error regarding exit point in floating point variable” or some other jargon like that, I don’t really remember it. And thus began my 45 minute journey to figure out what’s causing it.

    Trying to play a simple game with my brother during a stressful time in our lives and dealing with his computer pulling random bs was so annoying. I miss when you could just plug in another controller :(

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
    0·
    7 months ago

    One drive legitimately breaks windows, well not usually but only because developers are smart enough not to use it, the A problem with One Drive is that Windows in there infinite wisdom has decided to put default folders directly into One Drive: Desktop, Documents, Pictures, etc, if a developer was to actually use these folders the auto saves, restores and virtual files stored online would absolutely break what ever is stored in there, now this might sound obvious and of course they are only for the end user developers shouldn’t touch it, but that hasn’t always been true, it wasn’t that long ago when the documents folder was used heavily for saves , but more importantly if the user tries to backup other files that contain programs you know those things that are a hassle to reinstall, then they will break programs.