Users should not need to go through various settings to disable features in software they never wanted to run in the first place. That process is still there to create friction.
And you kid yourself if you think Microsoft is doing this because it wants to help its users keep their data safe. They want your data. Microsoft does not use end-to-end encryption. And, even if they did, there is no reason to believe that filenames and other metadata are encrypted.
And even if they don’t use that data, they clearly want to be able to upsell you when you use up your limit and try to get you to pay for more data, and choose them because it’s easier than enabling a different solution. That’s the point of this type of bundling.
I actually have no problem believing that @puzzlegal didn’t do anything to cause OneDrive to react the way it did, as there are so many stories of it misbehaving. I have a friend who suddenly had all his files wind up on OneDrive and then being deleted off his computer.
It’s shitty software. You want backup? Get your whole PC backed up for $9 a month using Backblaze. Nothing ever gets moved off your computer, period.
Also, anyone who “really loves” Windows 11 is an extreme outlier. The general range is “it’s okay” to “i hate it.”
And, to think, I came in planning to actually defend Windows 11 a bit.
I just LOVE (not!) this kind of comment. The discussion is very specific, so I’m not saying anything other than what I said about this very specific discussion.
For the record, I do agree with you, however. Windows 8 didn’t even have a desktop. I hope they fired the idiots that dreamed that up.
I use Windows 11 at work, and in a corporate setting, it’s fine. I don’t love it, but it’s certainly “okay”. And it supports a lot of stuff that matters to a corporation but not to me, like automatically deleting old files. Companies that might be sued and be subject to expensive discovery really want old, unneeded files to be unrecoverable, even if they never do anything wrong. It also handles permissions (who can see which folders) very well. Again, not a big deal for a home laptop, but of critical importance to a corporation.
See my post just above yours. I confirmed on a Microsoft website that the problem i experienced was default behavior, and not any choices i made. Could i have made choices to avoid the problems? Yes. But i would have needed to understand OneDrive to a level that MS never explained to me when it imposed it on me, and i would have needed to individually mark each file for local storage. Or to have successfully set up a directory that wasn’t “backed up”. (Something i had attempted to do, but failed at. Because the directory structure in Windows 11 is really confusing.)
Fyi, switching to Linux was much easier than i expected, and I’ve been pretty happy with it.