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I'm writing materials to teach Windows 11 to someone, and I literally explain Onedrive as "a computer in America".

Head-in-the-cloud storage.

Commenting just so I remember to do the same tomorrow. I'm in bed, functions are failing.

Computers no longer solve actual problems, and are the problem now.

"We noticed you haven't been using OneDrive enough so we will create problems and then force you to use OneDrive to fix them" - Microsoft

I've been using Publisher for 30 years for all kinds of stuff, and I've gotten really, really good at it, with it all customized to my specs.

Now they're discontinuing it in October, and supposedly it will stop working, and all my stuff will be unusable. I'll have the final PDFs/JPGs/Pngs, etc but none of the files, if I want to modify them, which I do, frequently. I've tried Word, it sucks for graphics.

Now I've got to figure out a new replacement, and start a new learning curve. The one thing I am sure of is that the replacement will NOT be MicroSlop.

Word cannot auto save a file every few minutes

But apparently it uploads text to copilot every time you copy 😡

I still hit ctrl+s after writing every sentence because of when Word would only auto save every 5 minutes, but crash about every 4.

Its even more silly when VS Code and Visual study can do it, without issue

Which is also microsoft products

You use word?

I think libre Office writer can do that

Call me a shill, but that's why I always used Google Docs when I was in school. Things are instantly saved and I can easily access them on other devices. It was also always how we collaborated on group projects with the ability of multiple people to simultaneously edit power points in a collaborative project.

I don't have use for word processing anymore, but I used Google Docs from like 2012-2020.

Definitely helped a ton because my laptop in grad school would randomly blue screen a lot for no discernible reason. Did that when it was new too and Dell support was no help. I have a suspicion that the processor was actually faulty on a hardware level straight from the factory...as it would have problems both in Windows AND Linux that were "fixed" by dramatically underclocking the CPU. All hardware stress tests would always pass. :/

Anyway, sorry for the random tangent lol.

You're not alone, friend. To paraphrase Doctorow, an app is just a website that's a felony to alter. If a company puts a service behind an app that they don't also make available via web, I am either learning to do without that service or looking for foss alternatives. I really don't care about someone's grandpa finding it easier to use an app, fuck you stop using old people to justify killing the web, give me a functioning website.

I switched in October to Mint and have had very few issues with it. I'm not particularly experienced when it comes to programming and found it pretty straighforward.

I had one sound issue which was fixed in about half an hour with some googling, one with a set of flight pedals not working and a game that won't work with Windows users in multiplayer.

The only one causing me a real issue is the game one, it has taken me hours of searching with only partial fixes.

Overall I think the OS is great and the issues are small teething things, learning the small programing that it has required has made me feel more confident too since there is tons of documentation to help online.

Even with all the hacky annoyance CachyOS gives me, it is so refreshing not to get OneDrive or Copilot shoved on me in every window.

How does one give it a try? Honest question

If I want to maintain my Windows computer, do I need a new computer?

If I was already looking for a laptop, do I just buy the cheapest one and reformat? Does Distro utilize Touch Screen?

I find windows intolerable ~~if I don't run that and turn half the shit off.~~

I mean, Linux would be less effort.