If you want to avoid this latest OneDrive nonsense, then feel free to open Task Manager, search for Microsoft OneDrive, and end that task the old-school way.
Or download Rufus and use it to create a Linux install flash drive.
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
139 points (94.3% liked)
Interesting Global News
2590 readers
382 users here now
What is global news?
Something that happened or was uncovered recently anywhere in the world. It doesn't have to have global implications. Just has to be informative in some way.
Post guidelines
Title format
Post title should mirror the news source title.
URL format
Post URL should be the original link to the article (even if paywalled) and archived copies left in the body. It allows avoiding duplicate posts when cross-posting.
[Opinion] prefix
Opinion (op-ed) articles must use [Opinion] prefix before the title.
Rules
1. English only
Title and associated content has to be in English.
2. No social media posts
Avoid all social media posts. Try searching for a source that has a written article or transcription on the subject.
3. Respectful communication
All communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
4. Inclusivity
Everyone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
5. Ad hominem attacks
Any kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.
6. Off-topic tangents
Stay on topic. Keep it relevant.
7. Instance rules may apply
If something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.
Companion communities
- [email protected] - International and local legal news.
- [email protected] - Technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy.
- [email protected] - Interesting articles, projects, and research that doesn't fit the definition of news.
- [email protected] - News and information from Europe.
Icon attribution | Banner attribution
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I would rather remove Onedrive using winget and call it a day.
Don't forget to remove Edge with a third party tool or a registry hack, disable the search and news fields in the taskbar (again), also you should probably check if all telemetry settings were switched back on with the last update, by the way why haven't you subscribed to M365 yet, that's why we forced you to create an account after all? and please fill out this survey before we let you log in without giving us your phone number.
Entirely eliminating proprietary garbage like Windows from your life sounds better to me. After a couple of Windows Updates OneDrive, Edge and all the other garbage you uninstall will be back, Windows behaves like fucking malware, it's a cancer. On Linux, won't ever have to deal with this garbage ever again. You will also have access to much better package managers than winget.
I always read about these new annoying windows features but I never actually encounter them on my Win11 PC...
Is it because I'm on a professional license?
Yes. They only show start menu ads and bullshit like this to standard users.
nope I'm on home and I've never seen any start menu ads or shit like that (default configuration is pretty bad tho), except pre-pinned stuff that can just be unpinned (pro also has it too)
there's no reason to use pro except GPO, and if you only care about local group policies, you can just poke the registry
Wrong community
At a certain point if you aren't at least looking at alternatives to running windows you have no self respect.
I always suggested that they tell their software team to offer sincere entreatments of self harm to management. No one actually reads them so my malignant rage was hardly even rude. If anyone on the windows software team is reading this, I still hate whoever came up with this. Forward my regards to your boss. Regards
Other: Fuck you
"It's not you, it's me" surprisingly absent from the list of options.