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Using Windows 11 is, for me personally, absolutely brutal. The defaults feel anti user. An example in the form of an issue I encountered recently: if you have a
by Boogie_Man 3y ago
Using Windows 11 is, for me personally, absolutely brutal. The defaults feel anti user. An example in the form of an issue I encountered recently: if you have an OS that fails to boot, and you had files on demand enabled in directories backed up with one drive, the files are totally inaccessible on the local disk, even if you had them "synced".
It seems like retrieving files from my SSD should be a basic function of a general purpose OS, but they've gone and bungled it in order to push dependence on their cloud services.
- mavhc 3y agoWhy would you need to if they're synced to the cloud, just download them again
- lelanthran 3y agoI think the question he is asking is why download something sitting on the local disk.
- Boogie_Man 3y agoTwo answers General answer: Because it's needless complexity (relying on a company's service rather than... reading from a local disk) that masks what is actually happening behind the scenes. It will always be less reliable. Answer in that specific situation: They were files in a OneDrive that no longer existed after a tenant migration (they hired a consulting company that seemed to bungle things).
- mavhc 3y agoPretty sure logging into a service you decided to use on another computer is easier than trying to recover files from a computer that won't boot If you set up files on demand, you have to demand your files, it's in the name. Hope they never paid the consulting company
- Boogie_Man 3y agoIf software prevents me from performing a simple action on my files on my machine (unless this is the specific intended function I had for the program) it is, in the simplest sense of the term, malware. It has done me malice. People pay to be harmed, go figure.
- em500 3y agoSo what would be your course of action if you had an SSD failure?