Or the bike lane is basically marking the dooring zone of parking lots.

You can say what you want.

Apparently, because you do not seem to process what I’m actually saying and keep ripping single issues out of context so you can downplay the whole problem.

One last try, directly delivered to your door, if you don’t get it this time I’ll stop wasting my time.
OneDrive being the default save locationnis just a small symptom of the problem that Microsoft wants you to totally submit to cloud- and subscription-based computing. You are not to own your system anymore, it is just rented, MS does not want you to operate on the local level. The customer is losing control over a system they are more and more depending on in a more and more digitalized world. And it’s not that it is just an option like where you save a file. It gets harder and harder to use a Windows PC without subscription services. You cannot even set up local users without some workaround most users are not educated enough to even find a tutorial for or realize why it is a problem.
See what the fuss is about now?

It’s not that easy. Because that shit comes back, usually with the next update.

I’ve prepared windows machines in a B2B IT support firm for our customers. Over very few years it became very quickly progressively harder to install windows without a network connection, set up local user accounts, debloat everything, etc.
We even had customer’s employees paying us money to untangle their private machines from that MS BS, and it took us a few hours per device.
And don’t get me started on “I saved a file to OneDrive but can’t find it there”. That happened often and wasn’t always user error (like, 50/50)

Also, let’s be real here. This is not a problem for the vast vast majority of users.

Yes it is. Whether they realize it or just think it would be more of a hassle to solve it and instead just roll with it is another thing.

If I want to maintain my Windows computer, do I need a new computer?

Depends on your SSD size. If you settled for a distro and desktop environment you want to try more long term, you can create another partition on your SSD and install linux there, creating a so-called dual boot. There are many good tutorials on YT how to do that.

If I was already looking for a laptop, do I just buy the cheapest one and reformat? Does Distro utilize Touch Screen?

You can install Linux on any laptop. I run Pop!OS on a Surface Pro 3 tablet, touchscreen works well.

If you want to get a new laptop anyway and are insecure about doing all that partitioning, UEFI, flashing stuff yourself, you can get devices with Linux preinstalled. In the US, theres System76 that come with Pop!OS (an OS based on Ubuntu with System76’s own DE), or in Germany there is Tuxedo with their own (also Ubuntu-based) Tuxedo OS with KDE desktop.

How does one give it a try? Honest question

You can flash a USB drive with an image using Balena or Rufus for example (there are numerous tutorials out there), then insert the USB drive into a port and boot into BIOS/UEFI (depends on your computer how to do that exactly please look it up online), then either set that USB drive to boot priority #1 or (preferrably) use a boot override if your computer is able to do that. Hit Save&Exit and you’ll boot Linux from that drive.
That will boot into a live environment where you can try how everything feels, is handled, just look around. At this point, you did not install everything and no permanent changes are made to your computer (except for maybe boot priority).
This way, you can try out different distros with different desktop environments without installing anything.

Where meme?

It is that easy. NextCloud works with LibreOffice, and my first contact with Cryptpad was some vacation planning with online friends and someone set up the pad, sent the link and we were able to work with that stuff instantly.

No more classroom work for me!

I don’t know what your occupation is/will be, but office world is not a lot different from class rooms in many regards xD (I hope you got a more comfortable experience with your coworkers though).

Don’t make it a group discussion. Just say “I’m gonna set up a collab doc later today” and send them the link. It will just be a workable document, nothing fancy and no weird UI you gotta get into.

My guy. It never was about how “easy” it is, it always was about that Microslop tries to push their subscription and cloud BS down our throats in every possible place they could find. From default save locations over forced cloud accounts instead of local user accounts to making it hardly possible to uninstall that shit. It’s not the single instances of BS (not necessarily, that forced cloud accounts to log in to your supposedly own device and gettingbrid of local profiles is in itself a middle finger), it is all ofnit adding up, and the default save location is a small straw braking a long dead camel’s back.

Back when I was in school (damn does it make me feel old to say “back in my day”) I just had one device and collaboratively working on a presentation meant splitting up the parts and everyone sent what they wanted to have on the slides to the one group member who actually created the presentation (and made sure the format and style of bullet points were coherent) in zipped archives via e-mail. Also, we had to either bring our own laptops to show a presentation (at least the schools had beamers) or print that shit on literal OHP transparencies.

Anyway, there are open source alternatives to Google Docs, OneDrive, etc. You could go the NextCloud route or use Cryptpad, both can be either subscribed to through various platforms or even self hosted.

Just to add to your anecdote and provide some alternatives if someone reading this needed to know.

I mean, Linux would be less effort.

The text reads like this is an AI generated post.

No, it’s retro (I made it new but evoking an older meme).

Mods are just humans though. I don’t know if they are just waiting for something to moderate 24/7.

And one of those regulations is No AI posts on this community.

That’s rich, considering you’re posting this on a platform without such an algorithm.

Cable fires/overheating cables, people with trimethylaminuria, some algae, some types of mold…

What are you talking about exactly?

No, apparently not. I don’t know why, but I think many people don’t care much about this. They see a post they mildly find funny, upvote, move on. At the same time, comments that voice annoyance get the normal amounts of upvotes, maybe slightly more downvotes but are still significantly in the positives.

Bru, go and find another of these discussions. Im tired of it and stop talking to you now.

Because text only screenshots from other platforms are just annoying and not memes.