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Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud (www.theverge.com)

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If this happens, will it be a mass exodus to Linux/Mac? Or will people just live with it? The fact that the Steam Deck has shown great promise in playing games on Linux has made me reconsider Windows yet again.

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[–] heyfluxay@nerdbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This sounds horrible.....

I've love to give Linux a real hard try, but my employer is every much a O365 org.... Not fully sure what sort of issues that would give me.

[–] techviator@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not many issues to be honest. You could even install Microsoft Edge on Linux and use that to access O365.

[–] heyfluxay@nerdbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anything but edge!

Honestly, besides my gaming PC at home.... Almost all of the application I run are web-based or have an alternative. The one downside I can think of is that most of the documents I do access and update are housed within OneDrive.

[–] techviator@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, you don't have to use Edge, any modern browser should work. I use Brave mainly, and have not had any issues with O365. You can use OneDrive on the browser, but even if you want it synchronized to your desktop there's a few ways to sync it to Linux:

https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver#readme - FOSS with GUI

https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive#readme - FOSS CLI (but there is a GUI for it, and a System Tray icon if desired)

https://www.insynchq.com/linux - Proprietary commercial product

[–] NecoArcKbinAccount@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Do they allow you to use the web browser version?

[–] Wheeljack@nerdbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could always try booting up a Live CD and testing it out. It'll run a bit slower than a native install, but it's a super-easy way to check things out.

[–] heyfluxay@nerdbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I should just make a test partition at home, or at least a virtual box/etc.