Teams is worse!
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Teams is bad until you have to use Amazon chime and work docs.
I know right! I had the unfortunate experience of using it for a while and I have no idea how Amazon employees manage to communicate at all. It was an utter mess and looked like it came out of the 2000s.
- Fuck those things.
- The main problem with them is not just the software, which is awful, but that it means you're working at Amazon.
I'm lucky enough to be working with rather than for, but it does mean interacting with their crappy programs and work culture. Going back to using teams is a relief.
That sounds awful
I think OneDrive is just fine.
I primarily use it for my Windows PCs, I have it installed on my Macs. Rarely need anything in there from Linux, but it’s nice to be able to pop in from a browser and grab something.
I work in an IT Support role for a lot of users, and I think that OneDrive is the ideal backup for the average Windows user / basic consumer. It covers the folders that most people care about, offers versioning of files, and even ensures that I’m not needed when they transition to a new device even if their previous device does not turn on anymore.
Well, I do believe there are used for it. But it is very annoying when Microsoft keeps throwing it into my face time after time. I don't want it, I don't need it, and yet it will always automatically start after an update. For that bullshit alone I already hate it so much I will never use it.
One of the many reasons I'm on Linux now.
For IT purposes, i fuckin' love it. Forced sync of Desktop and Documents folders for users, all the email is server-side. no more bitching about data loss. "Did you use one drive like you said you would when you clicked "OK" to that user agreement?"
Exactly. It's very useful in a managed environment. It's performance overheads suck though.Way too much CPU usage.
But it should not be part of Windows, only office 365 or as an optional 3rd party service.
Same story with icloud on Apple and Google Drive on Android.
No free version of a paid cloud service should be included in any OS. It should require a separate opt-in sign up. Have we not learnt anything from the Microsoft antitrust cases.
Absolutely. The average consumer device shouldn't have any kind of internet dependancies baked into the OS, IMO. It should always be installed/enabled separately. There's still vast swathes of the US that don't have reliable internet.
In a professional context (e.g. work/office), O365 and related technologies make a lot of sense. It solves all kinds of real problems, especially for a remote/hybrid workforce. It's by no means the best answer for any one application, but it's a very comprehensive platform and gets the job done.
For the home user? Constantly forcing OneDrive into everyone's field of view on OS upgrades is intrusive advertising for a thing nobody asked for.
My favourite part is when you log into your work PC, and a bunch of things you deleted 6 months ago have re-appeared on your desktop.
"Duplicate of _____"
That happened because you unlinked OneDrive 6 months ago, or it deauthenticated and was never signed back in. Without being connected, it never got the memo that those files were removed so it never deleted those things from there.
The same thing would happen if you uninstalled any other program and then deleted the now local-only files, or if you restored from a 6 months old backup.
My favorite part was when my laptop charger crapped out yesterday, and instead of syncing the super important files that I was working in, and I needed today, onedrive crashed... Piece of shit software
Dropbox would've accomplished the same shit without being half as shitty.
I'd normally agree, but keeping it tied to AD is nice, and data exfiltration is a major enough concern for my environment that third-party cloud storage is thoroughly blocked.
In the US, Dropbox’s cost of entry is $120/$144 per year depending on whether or not you go month to month. The majority of users don’t need a 2TB storage plan.
OneDrive starts at $20/$24 for 100GB, $70/$84 for a 1TB plan, or $100/$120 for a 6-user family plan that totals 6TB.
Ah. Well I guess it depends on how much storage you need. For my purposes, the 12 GB I got my free account up to has worked well. I just sent a bunch of referral links to friends and each time got a bump in storage space.
This meme was just making the rounds on Lemmy like a week ago
If I haven't seen it, it's new to me!
OneDrive does exist on macOS.
RedStarOS
Was there any spyware/telemetry found in red star OS?
I remember a good few years back finding a leaked image for it and having some fun with it ended up throwing it on an open Gdrive link, then a few years later someone leaked a more up to date version that tried to look like macOS.
The last information i found is from 2015 (the one that looks like MacOS). There are no direct backdoors on the installation medium, although it is trivial to deliver one with software updates since the repositories are under state control. What has been found is a mechanism that attached the hardware id of the pc to any file that is opened, allowing to trace through which hands a file has gone. there was also an "anti-virus" that is a censoring mechanism, deleting files with predefined content.
Wasn't there also a "kill-switch" that reported to the government when you tried to tinker with the OS too much or something?
Wouldn’t you need to modify the filesystem type to associate this type of tracking data with a file?
well, it seems good for hosting "games at a 100% discount" at least, a few sites use it for that purpose
I found the one guy who likes OneDrive. He really advocated for its use during our last meeting with the others of the media team I'm in. I can't stand the tool, as it keeps demanding I pay the microsoft tax
What were his arguments for it's "greatness"?
Probably the fact that you can collaboratively work on the same documents as other users. Or that syncing files to local devices is pretty easy and straightforward. Sharing is also dead easy. From an IT perspective, file retention and versioning is a game changer. I just restored a computer that an angry user attempted to delete all files from when they had been fired because all the data was backed up to OneDrive. I think people just hate OneDrive because it's often advertised. I think very few people who actually make full use of it, actually hate it.
Fair, but most of these I can do with my Nextcloud.
I guess Microsoft hates OneDrive too
Ah yes, the memories of not being able to put stuff in my documents because "onedrive is out of space" which is when I figured out what onedrive was
That doesn’t happen.
You’re free to use your documents folder as much as you want, it’s still local to your disk / filesystem. Without available space in the cloud storage plan, those items won’t upload to the cloud and will have a red X as their status icon.
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Don't forget about SharePoint
I use a Mac for work and I’m saddened to say I do have to use OneDrive, and that it unsurprisingly sucks absolute ass.
So what would be better alternatives? I do not plan to self-host.
Just throwing it out there, even if you're not running your own server or anything, if you happen to have two computers turned on at the same time occasionally, Syncthing is awesomely transparent and works VERY well. Crazy easy to set up too. (Like actually easy, not "network admin easy.")
I personally run it on a little server at home now so it's always on, and there's a single "point of truth" where everything references the server, but you can have a number of devices that all simply ask each other what needs updating when they detect each other online. It can automatically retain versions, and that kind of thing. :)
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