Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself

What’s next? Hopefully, Microsoft won’t start injecting a poll at shutdown demanding to know why I’m turning my PC off for the day.

Well, if you decide to run Windows Server, I have news for you...

What, really? I was planning on learning Windows server for educational purposes and sysadmin skills....soon....probably.... some time soon...in the near future....hopefully.... maybe.... if I have time....

Jokes aside I was going to...one day... but this just completely turns me off. WHY? Why would I tell M$ and wby would I allow a piece of software running on MY Hardware to ask me for a reason to shut it down, the sheer f**king audacity. To quote John Malkovitch from that one scene in some show where a Windows update prevents people from stopping an asteroid, meaning Earth is screwed because Windows update: "FUCK MICROSOFT!!!!"
- In fairness, it's so there's a log of why the machine was shut down. It's for the sysadmins in charge rather than Microsoft. In practice, most people just choose "Other" as the reason so it's fairly useless. I have no idea if there's a way to turn it off, though.
- Where are Windows servers actually being used? I've never come across one.

i cringe so hard at how pathetic and ridiculous microsoft has become.

Literally the only reason why people still use windows is that everyone else writes their programs for windows. But let's be honest here. Out of the three big OS's (Win, Linux, MacOS) windows is by far the worst. Big developers have to start writing their software for Linux and windows will crumble very fast.

Devs follow the crowd, and its usually not the other way around unless theres a financial incentive (e.g valves position).

The easiest one is AI/ML. Devs could switch to linux and help make AMD better with open source drivers. Most of them continue to feed into the already existing CUDA network Nvidia created for devs. The major libraries for ML (e.g tensorflow) already have AMD backends, most devs just rather not do that work until its the mainstream.
I find for most day to day uses, there are already decent options available for Linux. There still needs to be a bit more polish for non technical users, but it's getting really close to being a viable mainstream option nowadays.
- There's still a lack of professional software for music, photography and video production. It's not just a matter of there being a good tool; you want a good tool that's established and widely used in the industry. If some of the makers of professional software in these fields were to port their stuff to Linux, Linux's market share would grow and the momentum would prompt more software companies to do the same. But getting that ball rolling has proven hard for decades. Maybe as Windows becomes more and more frustrating, more ordinary users who don't need these particular tools will migrate and increase Linux's market share, causing software companies to take note. But people are quite used to putting up with a lot of nonsense on Windows.
- Honestly, the use case with the least/worst options on Linux is CAD. Yes, FreeCAD is a thing but it's terrible and it's established userbase insists that actual modern CAD packages are unnecessary.
  
  Apart from FreeCAD, there's a browser-based option that looks good, but most people won't use it because it forces everything designed on their service to be open-source.
- needs to be a bit more polish for non technical users
  
  There's a curve to this. If they're non technical enough, learning to use Linux for browsing Facebook is just as easy as learning windows. I've switched a handful of my older customers to Linux and they're my least needy customers now.
Give me all games and I'll jump ships immediately.
- check out https://www.protondb.com/ if the games you want to play are supported. The number of unsupported games shrink by the day
- For me, my choice of platform is more important than my choice of game. Luckily the game I play, Minecraft, runs fine on Linux.

Is one of the options "because I fucking told you to"

or "none of your business"

"end process"

thats why.

My explanation is that I went to Pop_OS and never looked back.

How is it for gaming? Playing with Nobara right now
- Hit or miss, buy a Steam deck lol
I really think there's a huge potential market for companies like System76. This is basically the same model Apple has where they control the software and hardware stack to make sure everything works well together. Being able to just get a machine with Linux already set up, and everything working out of the box lowers the barrier for adoption significantly.

glad i got off of windows 10 before windows got worse. now i'm just sitting here laughing but also disappointed that people have to put up with let alone use this shit because it's the mainstream os

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Microsoft now wants you to explain exactly why you’re attempting to close its OneDrive for Windows app before it allows you to do so.

Neowin has spotted that the latest update to OneDrive now includes an annoying dialog box that asks you to select the reason why you’re closing the app every single time you attempt to close OneDrive from the taskbar.

Microsoft has been pushing OneDrive in Windows for years, with it taking over the Documents and Pictures libraries in Windows 11 by default to sync files to Microsoft’s cloud-powered storage.

This new behavior follows years of Microsoft’s demanding Edge prompts that appear if you dare to download Chrome or change your default browser.

Hopefully, Microsoft won’t start injecting a poll at shutdown demanding to know why I’m turning my PC off for the day.

If you want to avoid this latest OneDrive nonsense, then feel free to open Task Manager, search for Microsoft OneDrive, and end that task the old-school way.

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How dare they solicit feedback!

Sadly, there is no "none of your business, let me quit" option.

Literally an “X” in the corner of the prompt. It takes less than a second to dismiss.

I get the impression the author is the type of person to get annoyed when waitstaff at a restaurant check in to ask how everything is.

How dare they solicit feedback!

Sadly, there is no "none of your business, let me quit" option.

Literally an “X” in the corner of the prompt. It takes less than a second to dismiss.

I get the impression the author is the type of person to get annoyed when waitstaff at a restaurant check in to ask how everything is.