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and i flipped the switch to libreoffice long ago.
microsoft office has been bloated slow garbage for quite a while now. my condolences for people forced to use it.
I switched too but I would be lying if I said it is easy. The muscle memory and expectations are there for office, I hate them but it is hard for people to leave them.
it's sometimes not. i'm not an office power user for a while, but it took me a good while to truly acclimate to linux. i imagine it could take some time to get used to libreoffice.
in any case onlyoffice is also good imo, and they made it feel much more like ms office if that's your thing.
OneNote stopped working for me because of some OneDrive connectivity issue. It wouldn't give me the option to just save locally
Rather than fight with it, I just stopped using it. There are other note taking programs
It's no a privacy issue to me, it's usability. My harddrive is always there and connected. The internet and OneDrive are not. More than anything else, availability is the #1 thing I need with basic office applications
Before I got really into FOSS, there was a glitch at my college which revoked my Office365 licence. I switched to LibreOffice and never looked back, even when the glitch was patched.
The change is designed to make it easier for users to back up and access their documents across devices
Bullshit. The change is so microsoft can mine more data to feed openai.
I feel like it's more direct than that. They want more OneDrive subscriptions. Cloud storage is absurdly profitable
Time to start saving ai poisoning documents
Jokes on them, I use AI for all my text writing anyway.
Thatโs clearly for Copilot to scan all your documents for "indexing" without your consent
Is it even possible for regular person to get a an enterprise license of windows?
Seems like of this is intentional to funnel people into OS that spies and steals.
Try Linux and LibreOffice.
Daily driver for the last 10+ years!
and Collabora Office on mobile devices!
On it
check out massgrave.dev
Ohh wow... Looks very interesting. Thank you
I've heard that there is a mass grave one can visit where you can find information about obtaining and activating enterprise versions.
Its implied consent just like when a woman looks at you, duh.
Isn't onedrive a paid feature? What if you don't pay for it?
If it's like Google, they give you a seemingly generous amount of storage for free. Then they causally switch where you are saving everything to their cloud (one drive, Google drive) and then, if they have done their math right, a few years later you start getting polite prompts to upgrade your storage so you don't lose all your stuff. Usually by then you are invested enough that spending the time pulling everything back from there and storing it locally seems hardly worth the effort when it only costs $3 a month or whatever to quadruple your storage and kick the can down the road.
Rince and repeat
Apple does the same with icloud storage-many apps use the space to back up their data.
Google does the same with gmail and Google drive- your emails fill the space in your cloud.
If anything, MS are behind on this particular enshittification
But they've been doing that for ages. I had to change it more than a year ago.
Yeah, WTF, this guy just used his computer for the first time in 2 years?
"All your files are belong to us"
Sounds like robbery our data. Fact is we hear about data breaches all the time. Don't allow this for your personal data.
The current US admin cannot be trusted not to force Microsoft to handover your data and use it against you.
It will be done before it gets to court.
The current US admin cannot be trusted not to force Microsoft to handover your data
The current admin? Were you asleep during the Snowden scandal? PRISM? Four Eyes? The US, and services that store data in the US, are never trust worthy and are always stealing your data regardless of who is the clown in power at a given year.
It really is.
There are laws against going into someone's garden and picking their fruit, because fruit is valuable produce. This is slightly different, they invite you into their website, then they steal your valuable data for their commercial purposes without paying you for it.
Yet another reason to use alternatives to Microsoft.
Tell that to people who have to use certain software that only works with Office for work.
Even more fun in my case: for security reasons I am not allowed to save my work in any cloud.
Oh no! Guess I better continue to use Libre Office instead.
And Collabora Office on mobile devices :)
Meh. That's why LibreOffice exists.
Congratulations, you've just won the play stupid games and win stupid prices game.
No reason to complain, your documents can now be handed over to the authorities quickly and efficiently without any inconvenience to you, and we will also use them to train AI.
In the near future:
You can now open all your documents from OneDrive for the low price of 10 cent per document per time you open it. Also you don't have to worry about where to store anymore, it's all completely locked in to Microsoft formats, so you can't really move it to another platform anyway.
It seems like every new day has a new reason to remind me why I'm glad I ditched Microsoft.
and that changes everything
Does not change my opinion :-)
This company is becoming more and more toxic, and everybody should abandon their stuff ASAP!
Although it took me forever to switch to linux I switch to libreoffice in the early twenty teens I think. Once you could export to pdf it became the better way.
They did this already with Excel, and broke a lot of macros. Also changed how it could use IE for automation, and of course there's no way to convert it to Edge. If Microsoft didn't have 99% of the business world already tied up in their stuff they'd go out of business soon for the stupid things they break of their own products.
Thanks, I hate it.
Microsoft is steering customers to Linux
I was trying to create an Excel pie chart based on a downloaded CSV file. No big, but something I might only need once a year. Couldn't remember the PivotTable params. Search in help. It offers to do it for me. Sure, I think, not realizing it would try to turn on CoPilot, then try to upload the file to their cloud for analysis, then save it to OneDrive cloud.
The only thing that stopped it was that by default the 'auto-save' toggle wasn't on. So it stopped and complained. Killed it and started over, making sure everything was local. Ugh.
Nice try M$, I completely removed OneDrive from all of my Win11 installs. It still tries to get me to save to the folder that once upon a time was OneDrive by default. Auto save off, and save as on every save and select the folder on my file server.
completely removed OneDrive
Kindly asking for a tutorial.
The easiest way is firing up Chris Titus' script on the Terminal, going to Tweaks and selecting the OneDrive removal script. I don't endorse Chris Titus' content... but the script does work well as an aggregator for a bunch of other scripts that you'd have a hard time finding or running yourself.