Dealing with shit like this on Windows all day at work was what finally pushed me to switch to Linux on my home computer.
One of those articles had a guy commenting that OneDrive decided to purge a directory because it didn’t like what was in it, which; of course, led to the deleting of the original, synced, files. How people put up with this insanity is beyond me.
Microsoft doesn’t understand consent. Everyone ought to stop accepting its abuse and kick Windows to the curb as a matter of basic self-respect.
Computer rapists
I’ve had people get mad at me when I state the comparison that plainly (because they think I’m making light of SA or something, IDK), but yes.
MicrosoftTech bros.
It’s a huge proboem in tech, not just Microslop
How to turn off OneDrive with Group Policy.
Press Windows + R, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter. Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > OneDrive.
- Save documents to OneDrive by default: Disabled
- Prevent OneDrive from generating network traffic until the user signs in to OneDrive: Enabled
- Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage: Enabled
The last setting disables OneDrive on your system; make sure to change it to Disabled if you use OneDrive.
Restart your computer for the changes to take effect.
Just give Linux a shot.
Why keep using a shit system brought to you by a company in bed with fascists?
Cause Linux keeps crashing with my 16 core Ryzen. Windows power management is just better it seems.
I have a 16 core 9950X3D, never crashed with Linux in about a year of 24/7 uptime. I think you might have some hardware issues?
Apparently known issues with the 5000 series of 12/16 cores. Numerous reports but no fixes that worked for me including a full reinstall. I would have gone with a newer mobo/cpu if ram weren’t so damn expensive
If I may suggest, there is another way to remove OneDrive, and it can also remove Edge, Teams, Copilot, Recall, or any unwanted bloat from Microsoft. This is a permanent solution and it doesn’t even require to fiddle with the registry editor.
This ultimate Windows debloat utility comes in the form of a free and open-source operating system called GNU/Linux. Learn more at https://www.debian.org/ and https://fedoraproject.org/
Jokes aside, thanks for your service for those that can’t or won’t use an operating system that respects their choices.
I mean, honestly, just try dual-booting a Linux.
It’s super easy, it’s a fun little 45 minute project, and absolute worst case, you can undo everything without messing up your Windows install.
If/when I need a new job I’ll just put “Linux daily driver” as my entire resume /s
Oh the herd, 🙄 how they make the world such a ugly place.
You do realize that IT admins have no control over the business software environment, right? They get hired to maintain it, they do not have purchasing authority.
For real.
I’m a Windows sysadmin and I desperately want Microsoft to just make the OS that everybody clearly wants.
Actually, they already make the OS that most everyone wants. The LTSC version of Windows 10 and 11 are both eminently usable. They just don’t sell it to anyone unless you have an enterprise account and buy the keys in bulk.
It’s funny how people can get a pirated ltsc copy, and it will be better than the legitimate product offered to them
I am at a high enough position in my company that I could literally force everyone to transition to Mac or Linux.
They would not be able to stop me from doing that short of firing me.
But they would fire me. 100% no doubt about it. I would not have a job there within a day if I did that.
I call it “breakglass powers”. For most it’s probably known as “the things I’d do on the last day of my job”. Things you can do once and then never again.
That is not even remotely true.
Just estimated support costs alone are enough to move any business.
Set future standards and start moving towards that direction and pay people to do the work.
Tell me you know nothing about corporate IT without telling me you know nothing about corporate IT.
I fail to understand how suggesting that corporations respond to financial information would result in this response.
You are underestimating the cost of switching a business’s infrastructure from one system to another. For an organization with 10,000+ staff, this is extremely prohibitive. The time and effort required for retraining alone makes this a non-starter.
No, but at that scale you already should have converted your Windows servers to VMs and then it just becomes a question of which applications are portable now and which ones only need you to talk to your vendors about future Linux support. For the internal applications, you should have a Disaster Recovery program that can be used to get the source code centralized into a set of git repositories and a single developer would be able to transition them to becoming more portable and “more compatible with future standards” to help the business avoid future maintenance problems and potentially temporarily losing access to them if an upstream vendor were to make a breaking change.
