I'm already in the process of switching. Just installed nobara a few days ago, been slowly getting my games and such working and have been impressed. My only issue so far is I have some stuff in my onedrive folder on windows that I can't seem to access from linux. Need a way to access that or replace one drive for file sync and backup.
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Bazzite seems much better supported than Nobara, but both offer a Gnome variant, which has native support for onedrive.
If you stick with plasma, this project looks promising:
https://invent.kde.org/bernardogn/kio-onedrive
I hate the 'containerize everything' methodology of Bazzite. I tried it, and every problem I ran into the solution was like 'Oh, go add this line to the config file in this folder, easy peasy', only nothing was where it should've been because everything was containerized. I get that it's useful, but it's not my jam. I like nobara a lot better (because it's a regular distro, but also because it's not-ubuntu which hates my bog-standard RTX3060 GPU for, uh, reasons; Pop wouldn't let me update the nvidia driver without hard-locking the system no matter the version I tried, 2 installs of Ubuntu simply turned my monitor off with 'no signal' on boot and refused to do anything even when I let them sit there for 30 minutes, and Mint did the same thing booting the installer on USB.
However, I've since discovered pCloud and begun migrating my onedrive stuff over there. I was only ever using onedrive because it came installed with windows and I needed a place to put little stuff like my keepass passwords database and small projects and such to ensure that they were backed up. I would much rather use something with a linux-native client and without all the fucky-wuckiness that tends to be involved in any Microsoft product.
Onedrive isn't the easiest to set up, but it isn't so bad. You need the OneDrive client for linux, which is available in the main fedora repository (sudo dnf in onedrive) and for easier use and setup I recommend OneDriveGUI which has a pretty easy way to setup ones profile. Available either as an appimage, by compiling yourself or via the AUR via distrobox (which I just tested from Nobara and works, although personally I just use the appimage version).
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Yeah, I found some tutorials for it and was like 'Nah fuck this', so I switched to pCloud. Much rather have a linux-native client for a service that cares about privacy and doesn't include the fuckery that MS often puts into its products. pCloud works great.
Nice! If it wasn't for the 100GB free cloud storage I have on OneDrive I would definitely have switched as well.
Yeah I don't need anywhere near that much. I'm syncing maybe 50-100mb worth of stuff. More might be nice cause I could back up other things too, but.. meh.
Can't you access the files through the Onedrive website?
Yeah, that worked for copyign stuff over, but I need some kind of cloud backup service that I can drop files like my passwrods.kdbx file or my writing projects on to ensure that they are backed up. I have since discovered pCloud and have been very happy with it so far.