[recursivedoubts]

OneDrive is an absolute cancer. I teach Computer Science and my students are constantly accidentally checking their repos out onto onedrive which, of course, makes the performance absolutely atrocious to the point of unusability, and it often affects the weakest students who are most likely to get knocked out of CS by unrelated issues like this.

The UI in Windows is intentionally designed to confuse the issue so people unintentionally end up using One Drive, which is free until it isn't and then they can jam you with a subscription. Many of my students barely have an understanding of what a file system is and how it works now due to this horrible user-hostile UI.

MacOS is headed this direction as well. Congrats linux: you just need to continue to get worse at the relatively slow rate that you always have and you will be the best desktop/laptop OS within a few years.

[mijoharas]

> and you will be the best desktop/laptop OS within a few years.

Arguably it's already the best desktop/laptop OS. Hopefully within a few years it can be the most popular desktop OS.

Then again... maybe this year is the year of the linux desktop...

[tracker1]

I am pretty sure we'll see Desktop Linux in the US cross the 10% mark this year... however, I don't think it will get much higher without first party sales support from OEMs. Most people don't change their OS and just use what came with it, which today is mostly Windows or MacOS.

I'd really love if some vendors would license Pop from System76 for more, broader hardware support. I think it's just about the best out of the box experience in Linux for most users.

[lostmsu]

This take is weird. Git and OneDrive in a sense both are version control systems. What do you think would happen if you created a Git repository and a SVN repository in the same folder, then proceeded to add files from .git to SVN and let SVN manipulate them? It is not OneDrive's fault that your students don't understand version control.

[tracker1]

IMO, instruction should have had the users create a "src" directory under their profile/home directory to use for their repositories, and expressly mention the why's. That said, the fact that OneDrive slurps up Documents, etc. by default instead of an explicit directory, is part of the problem.

[vrighter]

Even worse. It doesn't slurp up the documents folder in your home directory. If you click on documents via explorer (or a file selection dialog), or go to c:\users\myusername\documents, you will arrive at different folders.

[vee-kay]

Agreed. Using one file management version-control system within another, is a surefire recipe for trouble and disaster.

But it isn't the students' fault, I guess they are still learning how to use computers.

This is purely an IT Administration fiasco. The IT admin should simply exclude the repository folders/paths from OneDrive. Or make everyone to save non-code documents to a separate shared network path, which is a storage drive that gets automatically backed up daily.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-remove-a-folder-from-o...

[samiv]

It's really sad if you think about that delivering the best desktop UX is all about just not actively sabotaging it on purpose.

Win the game by doing nothing while the competition drives themselves into the ground via enshittification.

After 40 years of computing this is the best we can do? No wonder we can't have nice things.

Maybe the Windows users should be called "victims" at this point.

[p0w3n3d]

enshittification of the NET and now OS continues. The problem is that students nowadays have very little opportunity to learn this. My daughter does not understand what a pendrive is and when the data is on her phone and when on the SD card (meanwhile sd card slots are being sunsetted in all the brands).

This is cartel to remove the data ownership possibility from people. Recently Polish youtuber got his video blocked because he showed how to play locally stored mp3 files (accused of breaking yt policy on allegedly showing people how to download illegal files)

If we allow companies to put an equals mark between not storing your own data in cloud and piracy, this will finish the cartel's objective very fast.