Found this meme from PCMR community

Was there any spyware/telemetry found in red star OS?

I remember a good few years back finding a leaked image for it and having some fun with it ended up throwing it on an open Gdrive link, then a few years later someone leaked a more up to date version that tried to look like macOS.

"Duplicate of _____"

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

That happened because you unlinked OneDrive 6 months ago, or it deauthenticated and was never signed back in. Without being connected, it never got the memo that those files were removed so it never deleted those things from there.

The same thing would happen if you uninstalled any other program and then deleted the now local-only files, or if you restored from a 6 months old backup.

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.

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.

In the US, Dropbox’s cost of entry is $120/$144 per year depending on whether or not you go month to month. The majority of users don’t need a 2TB storage plan.

OneDrive starts at $20/$24 for 100GB, $70/$84 for a 1TB plan, or $100/$120 for a 6-user family plan that totals 6TB.

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.

I know right! I had the unfortunate experience of using it for a while and I have no idea how Amazon employees manage to communicate at all. It was an utter mess and looked like it came out of the 2000s.

That sounds awful

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

i forgor 💀

There was quite a bit of initial config to do, but there is Linux OneDrive Client, and OneDriveGUI

I read an article that MS has backed off almost entirely on Win 11's requirements. Now it's a checkbox, "Your hardware isn't supported so you accept responsibility if you have problems."

As long as it's newer than Pentium 4, you are probably fine.

Win 11 now only needs popcnt (a newer instruction added 15 years ago) and sse4.2.

If you're going to try Linux, there's obviously a ton of great options but I can definitely recommend ZorinOS for anyone unfamiliar with Linux.

I replaced Windows on my Mom's computer with Zorin and she absolutely loves it. Its UI is simple and clean and the OS just works.

Might also look into https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver !

I think both KDE and GNOME desktop environments might have integration with OneDrive as an option in their respective file browsers.

I remember KDE could work with Google Drive in that casual "download when you need it" way, rather than the traditional "sync mirrored copies" way.

Personally I'd say KDE is also a fantastic desktop environment for coming from Windows with little friction. I run OpenSUSE Tumbleweed personally, but Fedora has a KDE "spin" and I think Zorin uses it by default.

Hope this is helpful :)

Probably the fact that you can collaboratively work on the same documents as other users. Or that syncing files to local devices is pretty easy and straightforward. Sharing is also dead easy. From an IT perspective, file retention and versioning is a game changer. I just restored a computer that an angry user attempted to delete all files from when they had been fired because all the data was backed up to OneDrive. I think people just hate OneDrive because it's often advertised. I think very few people who actually make full use of it, actually hate it.

It did happen. I had to disable a setting somewhere, which remedied it. Was still incredibly strange to see

I haven’t found that it comes back on its own after being uninstalled but I also deliberately have it on all my daily drivers, so it’s possible that’s happening with the annual feature updates.

In notification settings, there are two options that use the “welcome experience” and “tips / tricks” language - disabling those does away with a lot of the fullscreen subscription solicitations.

A lot of average users do benefit from being asked to opt in once or twice, but I agree there ought to be a more accessible “no thanks, never ask me again” option for power users.

I also wish that stuff was scaled back or stripped out of the professional editions of Windows, LTSC editions don’t have it but the license requirements don’t make that a particularly accessible option.

Linux is definitely the right move, it brings me great joy to see more and more folks discovering that as an option that is bot only viable, but also better. I hope to see Windows 10’s EOL become “the great Linuxing”

Can you recommend one? Nextcloud would be great tbh.

I do the same. My work buys Microsoft everything so it makes far more sense to use Microsoft everything at work and give it its best chance at selling me on the Microsoft ecosystem. Let's just say cost isn't the only reason I don't run Microsoft anything on my own hardware