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Microsoft pulls OneDrive update that would quiz you before letting you quit (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Powderhorn to c/technology

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Sharing here because of the post from 14 hours ago.

In my case, I thought I could survive a few weeks on a Surface with a fresh Windows install because I'd been planning to sell it. Now that it's turning into my daily driver with no real end in sight (and with all my thumb drives packed away), I have Yet Another Flash Drive™ arriving this evening so I can go back to KDE precisely because of this sort of bullshit.

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[–] Powderhorn 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I switched in May on my main rig precisely because of OneDrive nags after shopping distros for a couple months on my HTPC. The Surface had been dual-boot from the get go, as I bought it for a bootcamp, but I'd not used it for over a year because of other available computers. Without a functioning AC outlet at home (inverter install is awaiting solar install), the Surface is the only viable option, and I thought I'd be back on my desktop within a month ... two months ago.

Windows is more of a telemetry platform than an OS at this point, and Proton's evolution means my Steam library functions just as well on KDE Neon. I have a few legacy Win-only apps, but my expectations about use frequency from years ago no longer matched actual usage by the time I was willing to revisit my assumptions in spring.

And I'm glad I did, as Plasma is fucking amazing in terms of customizability compared to "you will have your taskbar at the bottom of the screen, and you will like it."