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OneDrive is ruining my PC gaming setups | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I set up a Windows PC for a friend, and he insisted on using his M$ account (bad decision). That caused the Desktop folder (not Downloads, not Documents, just the Desktop) to be stored in OneDrive. So as I tried to load his old PC's Software hive, to extract the windows key, it crashed the PC. No problem, the original hive was still exported on the Desktop. I just rebooted into the boot stick and tried to load the hive there. After searching for the Desktop folder for 30 minutes, I finally located it in the OneDrive folder. And despite it being there, and taking up space, according to dir, it couldn't be accessed, like wtf?

Who wants to share the desktop, but not Downloads etc? In contrast to the other user folders, the desktop is filled with program links that won't even work anywhere else.
And why not make it accessible in a live boot? Like, it was obviously accessible to some degree, but not readable somehow? Wtf?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I can understand how this might be annoying but I’m pretty sure it’s convenient for OneDrive users. Why doesn’t he just disable syncing on that folder? How many times is he changing PC?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Uninstall it then. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I've uninstalled it dozens of times. Uninstalling Windows is the real tip.

But gaming....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I've had the same machine since 2018 and I've only ever had to uninstall OneDrive once. 🤨

Using 10 or 11?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

If you're using Office365 it tends to auto update and happily forget you don't want to have OneDrive on your machine, so it reinstalls it.

It kinda annoying because OneDrive is a piece of shit in general, but saving directly to SharePoint from Office apps is useful. As with many Microsoft services, OneDrive is just SharePoint in disguise. But I really would like the SharePoint bit without the OneDrive bit.

I also don't like the whole cloud first thing, pushing everything to Microsoft services. But I understand why they did it, for regular dumb users storing shit on a cloud service is probably better than on the computer. I've had multiple co-workers send me Word docs with a list of linked documents (why is this a feature and why do people use it?), which all linked to the local Documents folder. They said they checked all the links before mailing the Word docs, so it must be me who is mistaken.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (9 children)

2 years since I’ve built my gaming rig. I’ve booted Windows on it once, and at this point I don’t even have a Windows partition anymore.

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[+] [email protected] -19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not once Ubuntu installs OneDrive in a wine-Snap. Then it'll mess up your games and increase memory use with duplicated libraries.

Really, in the end, Linux makes everything worse. Acornsoft is the only way. And Repton 2 and Elite are drop-in replacements for Elden Ring and Starfield.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

By not having the feature? 👌👍

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

About ten years ago, I was using a third-party OneDrive client to sync it on an Ubuntu install. It was working brilliantly until daylight savings started our stopped, then it got confused about file times not matching so tried resyncing everything, and then saw the times still didn't match, so made a new file for each file with an added numeric suffix, then tried doing the same for the new files, and kept going until my disk was full. That was a mess to tidy up, and once it was sorted, I had to start the sync program in GMT to stop it happening again.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ironically, needing dependable OneDrive (and the latest Microsoft Office) for work is the only thing preventing me from making the switch to Linux.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Look, Linux is great and all, and with the ammount of effort VALVE puts into proton, gaming does work very well with it. But unfortunately, particularly when it comes to multiplayer games, Linux/Proton can often not be a viable alternative to Windows. A lot of game developers are working against proton compatibility by using anti cheat software that either doesn't support proton or actively detects and prevents using proton.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

gaming does work very well with it.

...is worth mentioning that gaming on LInux doesn't work very well because middle ware (anticheat and stuff) do expect weird things designed by Microsoft. See this in the case of ACPI:

It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work. Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me. Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open. Or maybe we could patent something related to this. Bill Gates quote

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

No it's not worth mentioning. At all.

I don't care. Gamers don't care. Nobody but people defending the honor of Linux care. They just want it to work.

Pro tip: I couldn't give a fuck that Nvidia doesn't work either.

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[+] [email protected] -25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or just use Windows.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Dont play shitty games whose devs(or rather the companys behind) purposefully fuck up to not let it run on Linux

I don't. Most games I play are single player indie titles that run perfectly fine on the steam deck. I'm merely pointing out that people also like to play multiplayer games, and particularly in the competitive games, anti cheat software is often used to thwart cheaters and unfortunately that anti cheat software is often incompatible with linux/proton, either by lack of consideration or on purpose.

you should be mad at them not searching for the fault at valve or Linux.

At no point did I blame valve or linux for these issues, feel free to point out where I did that. I was clearly blaming the game developers that implement such "features" to the detriment of linux users.

All I was saying that your "solution" to "just install linux" is, unfortunately, not something that universally works for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Doesn’t sound like he's blaming Linux at all. Only stating that your answer to everything doesn’t work for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or just turn off OneDrive.

[+] [email protected] -37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because changing the computers entire structure makes so much more sense than just turning one program off...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

This is why the Linux community has a bad rep, you know. Mock the OS, not the users.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mock the OS, not the users.

You're right. It's not Linux users who are idiots - after all they make their best of a bad world - it's Linux itself. Or, more broadly, GNU+Linux. I mean, what unholy hybrid of an ungulate with an aquatic bird did anyone think was going to help anyone?! I just don't understand how it succeeded like it has. Must be marketing. That Ian guy, and - whatshername - they're probably to blame.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's an X in "Linux", and everyone's telling me that X is the coolest thing. Do you see anything like that in Windows?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

There's a + in my windows, and that means more!

Also I heard Linux is bored of x and they're going to rename it to Linuwayland, which sounds like Linoleum so it should be simple but easy to clean.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"I have cancer"

"Just install Linux"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

# sudo pacman -Rs cancer
:: removing cancer breaks dependency 'cancer' required by linux

Unfortunately it has metastasized to the kernel image. It's terminal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But like which terminal dude because kitty uses GPU rendering dude and it would be wild if you’re still using a different terminal but also yeah fish is cool and all and it’s not fully compatible with bash but like did you know shebangs can fix most of that or like dude even better there are so many ohmyzsh extensions for zsh its crazy. Are you on Arch, btw? I’m on Arch, btw.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I'm also on Arch btw, I use zsh for CLI but exclusively bash for shell scripts, and my terminal of choice is kitty because I use lf and kitty is the only terminal I've seen so far that can reliably display images

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