I once helped a person with their computer. They complained the they cant save the their photos. Well, their onedrive was filled to brim with crap, while the local 1Tb disk was empty because they had zero idea how storage and folders work. I had to explain her there is literally 1000x more fast disk space available, so please dont save into onedrive.

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 88 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not really her fault. Microsoft pushes people to use their onedrive and pay for a subscription even when people have no clue what it is or what it does. Microsoft is just insanely anti-consumer.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This and many others are reasons a switch to Linux has been so joyful. No more Windows trying to guilt me, nag me, push me, trick me, abuse me to use shit the way they want. It's so much more....quiet.

[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

For me, it just works, it does what I want it to, and it's not selling my info. A year and half now after leaving windows and I love it. Peaceful

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 1 points 4 months ago

With Linux I have ownership over my computer and control of the software. I couldn't use anything else.

[–] Dagrothus@reddthat.com 42 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I dont blame her tbh. I have onedrive completely disabled on my personal pc, but on my work laptop Windows defaults everything to onedrive and names the onedrive folders identically to your local ones.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Naming different things identically is a thing Microsoft loves to do. I still keep opening Teams or Teams instead of Teams. And I think there are at least three things on my PC called Copilot, and they haven't even released Copilot yet.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Had to explain that to my nephew. He couldn't save anything because iCloud was full. His Mac had like 300gigs available, but he couldn't save anything...

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That's great unless that person's files get corrupted/deleted or hard drive fails. Then having backups in the cloud or at least ona a device on a local network is a good idea.

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

In that case it would still be better to save locally and make regular encrypted backups to the clouds than to save everything to the cloud