• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    My mistake ill go tell my friend he’s just not allowed to use his mouse because a commentor on lemmy said it’s not his computer so he can’t run what he wants on it, especially not the OEM software that his mouse requires.

    My point is that Razer is famous for designing crap quality software. It’s probably nothing related to OneDrive, just Synapse being Synapse.

    Onedrive seems to sync documents by default, which means any games that write log files there will be constantly syncing any time they append a little to the end of the file.

    Games shouldn’t be writing constantly to Documents. That’s what temp/cache is for.

    True sorry I meant malware, it tries to reinstall itself and tries to make uninstalling more difficult, while also being a massive cpu hog while the user is unaware (and hasn’t opened it once).

    I’d love to see some tests done on this. A lot of the people complaining about Windows issues are the same people who used various “debloaters”, and these cause so many unintended issues.

    • starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works
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      Sure razer programs are super sketchy, but a convenience program I never installed should not touch ANYTHING unless I tell it to. The issue isn’t “oh razer is bad so it was probably onedrive doing something correctly and then it broke” it’s “why did I have to waste time figuring out some random program I never installed and don’t want was causing this problem?”

      They are writing constantly to documents because it makes it obvious to the user where the logs are, why do you get to decide they don’t get to write there? For example openmw a huge project puts logs there. Again it’s the fact it’s a program I never installed and don’t want that I had to spend hours researching to maybe find out what was causing it.

      An example of it being really buggy to get rid of

      https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/3998214/one-drive-keeps-recreating-itself

      Reinstalling itself

      https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/brai09/onedrive_keeps_reinstalling_itself/

      About performance idk what to tell you this seems very common

      https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/5i46aj/onedrive_is_always_checking_for_changes_and/

      https://www.reddit.com/r/onedrive/comments/oiix8t/high_cpu_and_ram_without_syncing_file_what_happen/

      Tons of videos on YouTube about it too.

      I shouldn’t have to say, for a software I never installed or wanted, “well okay I’m not allowed to append to logs to documents, or use documents for any game files that might change often, and if I’m unlucky to have onedrive be in a bugged state or they break it with an update then I will have 30% cpu usage forever unless I fix it. And also I will have to uninstall it every 6 months which might leave my file explorer in a broken state.” If this happened with a software I WANTED and installed myself, I would still complain but probably say the convenience is worth it. But it is being forced on me and the literal only reason I know about it is from it giving me 50% cpu usage and other friends having similar problems, for something they don’t want and never wanted.