Sounds like a windows people problem that I'm too Linux to understand
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They set me up a new Remote Desktop at work, and I couldn't use it to do my work because OneDrive was trying to sync the whole contents of my Desktop to that machine, when that machine exists primarily to do work that is too network intensive to do from home effeciently.
What about a link? I could let you have a link you could save to your documents folder? Would you like that? Would you like a link you could save and you could still save your actual file to our cloud? When you have internet trouble and can't load your damn file you could stare at that link and know that when your internet is working again, your file will be right there in the cloud for you. Wouldn't that be nice?
Imagine thinking you own your computer if it runs Windows instead of Free Software.
B...b...but I payed 200$ for the software
No, you paid 200 $ to be granted the right to use the software.
OneDrive scans all the files on your computer regardless of whether you use it or not.
Just delete the software and only use it from your browser.
Or just delete Windows and use Linux.
Deleting onedrive is one of the first things I do when installing windows.
If a PC is my property the first thing I do is delete windows. But now-a-days I nearly never use hardware that I own.
I switched my personal laptop to LMDE. It has a Windows 10 LTSC VM for some specialty applications that just will not run under Linux, but otherwise I make it work. My gaming PC is the only computer left in my house that runs Windows, and it'll be getting switched to LMDE soon.
Not possible on work machines when they keep pushing for that.
no I don't want to put these work downloads or logs in my cloud storage
You shouldn't be using a personal email on a work machine...
Who said it was a personal account?
Then why do you give a shit? Work manages what goes on the work-managed OneDrive on the work-managed account. That's how it works on my work laptop, too.
Because I don't want to have to filter it out later when trying to find something later in onedrive.
Sounds like something you should bring up with IT.
Onedrive on a personal PC is one thing, but Onedrive on a work machine is a different product and is up to the company's discretion. If it's not working the way you expect, you reach out to the IT department so they can explain it to you.
Something to keep in mind though: at the end of the day, none of the work stuff is yours. You have no control over it and never will. Store your files the way the company wants you to store them, because if it gets deleted or corrupted or whatever, it's not your problem. I'm stuck with Windows 11 and Onedrive on my work laptop, but I don't give a shit because it's not mine.
Sounds like you need to take a weekend with a linux live distro and just try it out see if you are more compatible with that. Here is a place that has a bunch.
This reminded me to install onedrive for linux. I mean, I have 105 GB of free cloud storage on my OneDrive, it'd be dumb not to take advantage of it even though I've moved from windows. CLI and systray GUI. The GUI makes it very easy to log in and setup, no need to touch a config file.
No need to touch a config file? What's the fun in that?
I suppose abraunegg's onedrive does help with creating a config file, but it might still scare away newcomers to linux having to dig around for it. I suppose they'll need to learn eventually.