I think its fine to have by default but issue is that when people run into critical problems its not easy to restore from the back up. Currently if you cook your system you need to put a live USB in and then run timeshift and restore.

I would consider it to be an easy to use backup tool if the timeshift backups are in the grub menu to be booted into if there is any issues with the main install. But I dont know if this is possible or not.

rolling back or restoring data from a cooked system?

Yes rolling back is easy but restoring from a major error using timeshift is not.

No the issue is once enabled your home directory becomes onedrive. People feel they are saving files into their users/myuser/Documents but they’re actually saving it to users/myuser/Onedrive/Documents. These files are being synced off into the cloud and only pulled down when requested. Then the user decides they dont want onedrive and so they turn it off by unlinking their account. Now they feel they’ve lost their files but they havent the files are still in one drive and they need to go get them after that they have local files as normal.

Its purely user error encouraged by microsofts pushy implementation and bad design.

Just wait until you actually need to restore using timeshift.

TwoDrive or not TwoDrive that is the question

No if you download the local copies back then delete them from OneDrive, OneDrive will delete the local copies you restored to your computer.

No because they would go to the download folder which isnt synced with onedrive.

users aren’t “Using OneDrive” intentionally

Yes this is the biggest issue with onedrive but its still on users to administer their system at the end of the day. That means doing the bare minimum research when removing something as integral as Onedrive. You cant just turn off a home directory sync service and not make sure your stuff has been downloaded out of that service.

Yes one drive replaces the default path locations with its own onedrive locations but the local folders are still there under ~/users/user/Documents etc. Also Disabling onedrive doesnt delete the copies, they are still there in microsoft cloud the user needs to go grab them. The users are using a tool that moves unused files to the cloud, its expected that they take the necessary steps to reverse that when they stop using that tool. You cant just disable onedrive and expect everything to magically be downloaded back unless you click the download all button or go to the website.

The issue is users dont know how it works and dont want to know. I dont blame them since microsoft is so dogshit at ui/ux to the point where its malicious.

No because kids are smart enough to add “write it like a kinda dumb 5th grader” to the prompt. So its not just slop its intentionally dumb badly written slop that makes you question if a sentient being wrote this.

I dont want to jump to conclusions since techspot is a dogshit outlet for information. Can anyone give me an example of onedrive users losing their files? I checked out a few reddit posts and tech fourm posts and none of the users seem to have actually lost files due to one drive. It seemed that users were getting confused at the onedrive file path overriding their default home path or unhappy that their onedrive hit a storage limit. Like most of the posts are about things that very clearly cant happen with onedrive.

I dont get why you’d avoid using onedrive in a work environment.

I could live with all my friends using slack

They can lock more features behind nitro. They can charge to run a server. They can add servers you have to pay to join. There is a ton of stuff they can do that would just make things suckier for users on the platform.

Dont you think its fair to limit streaming bitrate? Thats a very expensive service and they still provide a good enough version to free users.

IRC doesnt fit the usecase at all.

fediverse is search engine searchable. They’re public webpages being crawled.

Discord is technologically lightyears ahead of their competition. Its by far the smoothest large scale chat application out there. The only “dark pattern” is them pushing Nitro and you know what users should buy nitro not free to run a service at that scale.

“I wish all my friends would leave discord and go to an alternative chat platform”

The monkey paw curls and all your friends move to MS Teams.

Dont worry, Trump will transition out of Capitalism and Altman/Thiel/Lucky will take their place in the Vanguard party.

no. In a few years I will be once I can get my first house.