Even worse when it’s buried in a hidden folder, and for some reason Windows keeps disabling the “view hidden folders and files” option with every single update.
I hate this cancer so much. I’ve even forcefully removed it from my system, and Word still tries to save it there and then hangs for 30 secs while realizing that shit is gone.
Been helping with multiple friends with their laptops. Windows 11 systems and the directories are all fucked up. Windows wants everything synced to Onedrive and so when you click on downloads or something it goes to onedrive’s downloads and so forth. It’s fucking hell I have to delete onedrive and find \documents again and try to pin it in the file explorer side panel to make it so it’s useful again.
Isn’t this operating system supposed to be noob friendly? If they figure out how to go back to windows 10 22h2 then they can probably find out where the directories are already.
Btw, all these computers are stock and not modified.
They want your subscription. They don’t care about friendly. They make it confusing on purpose, since less knowledgeable people will just sign up for the paid plan. It’s a dark pattern.
With how monolithic operating systems are and how much gets built on top of them and requires them, we really need legislation to prevent this kind of greed. There is no free market and no freedom of choice when it comes to OSes because of that dependency.
This is nearly identical to the Apple ecosystem. Everything gets virtually pathed and saved to your iCloud account unless you direct it to do otherwise. Oh, and you can’t manage iOS to do otherwise, short of disabling the iCloud uploads. In Windows, for people who blindly (or intentionally) choose OneDrive for their cloud service, it’s essentially transparent. I’m not saying it’s right, but for the pc-as-an-appliance crowd, it’s pretty smooth when it works.
Because of the enshittification of Windows and MacOS, we’re already at the point where Linux is actually the easiest to use desktop OS. Winning by standing still.
It’s a terrible idea. Say your pc torrents 2 TB of media, I’m not gonna pay Windows for 2 TB of onedrive storage. What of those people in engineering and comp sci who have massive files of projects and don’t need to sync to onedrive because they already use backups to github or otherwise?
those people in engineering and comp sci who have massive files of projects
Neither of those people are using windows as an appliance.
because they already use backups to github
This is where everyone who loves Linux - and nearly everyone who works in IT/CompSci fails to understand the rest of the world. If you have to do anything from the command line - or if anything is easier from the command line - you’ve excluded roughly 90% of the population from calling it “easy”. You may as well tell someone how to adjust the fuel mix in their carburetor or set up a bridgeport mill to make a quick replacement for the plastic buckle that broke on their backpack (and much stronger/durable to boot!). Not only does nobody today want to, they’ve probably only seen exist in a movie.
It got so much worse with the heavy suggesting of OneDrive and Microsoft intentionally misleading people into thinking they’ve successfully clicked out of using OneDrive.
I’m not qualified in any feasible way to talk about this…but
Maybe it has to do with how individual developers make their games. Like if every game defaults screenshots to somewhere different it is difficult for steam to properly identify and place the file?
But aren’t the screenshots handled by the Steam overlay directly? The only ‘screenshot’ feature I’ve ever seen in game is photo mode. Actual screenshots have been through Steam or print screen (Greenshot).
Steam settings > In game. There’s a whole screenshots section. It only saves the screenshot temporarily until you upload it to Steam unless you set it to save another copy. Extremely simple.
No, the android thing is fucked. I have no idea where Firefox saves shit to and god help me if I want one app to see files downloaded by another app. VLC isn’t even allowed to see where Newpipe saves files to on my phone. Syncthing isn’t even allowed to write files to the sd card. It’s all stupid fucked and why I’m making sure to get a GrapheneOS or LineageOS compatible phone next.
My problem is, if I download a pfd, navigating to folder in some other app. Which download folder? The one in internal storage or the one on the sd card? File management is a hassle.
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