Welcome to Patriots for Progress. Round these parts, we roleplay as American conservatives and use all the reactionary buzzwords while continuing to produce leftist and communist propaganda.
Rule 1: No special snowflake white supremacist nonsense, or any other kind of bigotry
Rule 2: No big city econ major capitalism talk. And no centrism either, the LORD gave us the second amendment for a reason
Rule 3: AMERICAN PATRIOTS ONLY π¦ π¦ π¦ !!! This is America, so you'd best speak English, Navajo, Cherokee, or some other American language!
There's advantages to saving documents to the cloud for backups.
Severely limiting that space by default and then preventing you from saving files when it runs out is horseshit. Half the computer problems I've fixed recently are all caused by OneDrive running out of space.
My sister wanted to know why her Sims saves were disappearing. Turns out OneDrive was full and the saves were being backed up to it. No space = no more saving apparently.
Wow, that's really garbage. Why is MS trying so hard to push Linux?
Because they know most people won't move to Linux. Most people will stick with whatever absolute garbage they know and will just be annoyed when things continue to degrade, but they won't leave.
Well if you fill up the space you pay for... What is OneDrive supposed to do if you try to add more files? How would it pick which ones to upload to the cloud and which ones not to? It would be pretty annoying if it just let you keep adding data locally but stopped uploading it imo.
Linux doesnβt make you jump through this hoop π§π«‘πΊπΈ
You know, I use Linux at work but use windows at home. I've been thinking of switching for a while. I think the thing that is going to push me over the edge is the difficulty that I have saving a file to my own god damned computer.
I love automatic backups to the cloud WHEN I CHOOSE TO USE THEM! I'm tired of Microsoft essentially holding my data for ransom, though.
Welp, they're never going to stop, and they're always going to get more intrusive. Linux is better than it has ever been! Give it a whirl. I suggest Pop!_OS for people who don't want to mess with their system, and Arch for people who love messing with their system.
Edit: Fedora is a nice middle-ground.
I'm on Garuda. For gaming, I think it's an ideal option. It's Arch based but comes with everything set up for gaming, and tools to install whatever you may need. I think it comes with the AUR set up automatically too (or it's an option that's easy at least), which isn't necessary, but it does have some things you may want/need for modding and certain (very few) non-steam games. I think RuneLite for Runescape I got from the AUR, or something like that.
I haven't tried Pop, and Fedora is alright though I personally didn't care for it as much.
That's an "I use Arch BTW", just with extra steps...
Fewer steps because it comes set up with a ton of stuff, but yeah.
Arch is (in)famous for how much you need to do yourself, but Garuda takes care of most of this.
You can make cloud backups whenever you choose on Linux whenever you want, even to OneDrive.
So far I've never had Bazzite nor Mint nor any of my software there force me to put things anywhere.
Just know the Microsoft Office suite and Adobe's software don't really work on Linux systems.
I have a cheap laptop that I got solely for school to run their anti cheat Spyware for online tests. I hadn't turned it on since I updated it and it forced me to make a hotmail/outlook account or I couldn't use the laptop to take my test. Assholes almost made me late for it. Fuck microsoft.
If i can get guild wars 2 to run on Linux I won't need windows anymore
Edit : sorry for the confusion. I have linux running. The next step is to work on gw2. It's the only thing remaining.
May I ask for further clarification on when you tried when running the game?
I haven't tried Guild Wars 2 on Linux however it seems like it works according to ProtonDB.
figured out how to log in
Now to install proton dB...if I can find the install program.
Sorry I should have been more clear. I have mint linux installed. The speakers and the headset works. When I get a chance I need to work on gw2. It's the last step. Sorry for the confusion.
I think all you have to do is add it to Steam as a non-Steam game and then run it with Proton.
Ok have steam installed. Have steam set to the newest proton version.
To add the game as a non steam game :
Click games then click add a non-steam game to my library
Not sure where to go from here.
Do I download the game from arena net?
Sorry for the dumb questions
I should add I didn't get the game from steam. I bought the game on a disc years ago when it first came out.
Or add it to Lutris, then it's also click-and-play without needing an account with another proprietary service that needs to run in the background.
You can also use one of the many Launchers if you don't want to add it to Steam as a non-steam game. Alternatively, you can also launch it directly with proton/wine yourself, though this is the most annoying option.
Yeah, too many little details to remember in the manual option.
That said, it's worth it to learn how to do it by hand if only for the handful of games that won't just run when launched from a Launcher like Lutris and you have to manually read the logs and then tweak the config or just because there some interesting advanced features in the various adaptor layers we're using that aren't mapped to config options in the Launcher - for example, just yesterday I discovered how to get DXVK - the layer than translates DirectX calls to Vulkan calls - to overlay various pieces of useful or interesting information such as FPS and CPU load on screen (in what's called the DXVK Hud) on the game during play and because I understood how it was launching Windows games a while ago I figured out how to get Lutris to default to launch games inside a firejail sandbox which disables networking and blocks system level access.
It runs without a problem via steam for me on Linux mint. I don't know how to do whatever setup steam does manually, but you can just launch it through steam and sign in with your anet account. (There's a config option to open the login window instead of using your steam account for login)
Have you tried playing nethack instead?
Or maybe Dink Smallwood?
There's numerous howtos out there, and it works like a charm.
Just add it to Steam/Lutris and go, it's not worth an entire blog post or video about.
I did not want to put it this way, but essentially: this.
My employer doesn't care what you think.
Yeah well, good luck getting autosave to work now. If you donβt comply, you lose your privileges.
Is this on Windows 11? On 10 I can still direct it to an offline area of my drive.
To be fair people massively misunderstand OneDrive. It's not an extra storage space, it's a file sharing space. Which is incredibly useful in a work environment.
If you donβt save your office docs to onedrive, you canβt turn on auto save.
Huh, I just haven't used word in forever. I booted it up just to see, and yeah that's ridiculous.
Missing a few βgot dangsβ in there
I tell you h'what that bing ain't right..
F12 to save