In the time that I was forced to use it, an entire team of Microsoft engineers could not get a Linux version working. It’s a bloody website wrapped in a browser and they could not get it to work. A single dude made a linux package that just worked until Microshits messed that up right on time for their “official linux release”, which (surprise surprise) still refused to work completely.
Linux users kept having trouble sharing screens, sharing files, couldn’t add backgrounds to video calls, and a bunch of other stuff. For a while I thought it was just Linux users, but Mac users were also having trouble (this was before the M1s came along). Mac users had cameras that failed, sometimes couldn’t see anybody else’s video (just black), were inaudible and had to reconnect, and more issues.
I have friends who have to use office 265 and the amount of issues they run into is just phenomenal. Passwords have to be changed semi-frequently (every quarter or something) and sometimes they don’t sync across the entire system. OneDrive has issues with symlinks (or whatever windows calls them) - either it’s a Microshit problem or a user problem, I can’t tell, but moving a symlink can sometimes move all the data too.
Not all the products seem to be properly connected like events created in calendars might not create team links despite configured to do so and only add a team link to the meeting when created within the desktop app (a bug known for a few years now). There have also been problems with OneDrive and SharePoint with access rights not being the same, some files missing (hidden or straight up not synced), and a bunch of other things.
I’ve had friends on “workation” walk into my room asking if I could help them with “this microsoft issue” and tell them to straight up ask their support, because I left that turdball of an ecosystem long ago.Boy am I glad I did.
Shortcuts: stored as regular files on disk; only function as a symlink from Explorer.
Actual symlinks: stored as actual symlinks (or NTFS reparse points). Transparent for all apps, but can only be created using mklink.
There’s also junction links apparently, but afaik they’re just bindmounts.
moving a symlink can sometimes move all the data too.
Probably, someone managed to create a real symlink in their OneDrive folder, and since OneDrive probably doesn’t check for symlinks it blindly copied all the files to the cloud.
Take all this with a grain of salt — I’m not a Microsoft developer, and it’s been a while since I last used Windows.
In the time that I was forced to use it, an entire team of Microsoft engineers could not get a Linux version working. It’s a bloody website wrapped in a browser and they could not get it to work. A single dude made a linux package that just worked until Microshits messed that up right on time for their “official linux release”, which (surprise surprise) still refused to work completely.
Linux users kept having trouble sharing screens, sharing files, couldn’t add backgrounds to video calls, and a bunch of other stuff. For a while I thought it was just Linux users, but Mac users were also having trouble (this was before the M1s came along). Mac users had cameras that failed, sometimes couldn’t see anybody else’s video (just black), were inaudible and had to reconnect, and more issues.
I have friends who have to use office 265 and the amount of issues they run into is just phenomenal. Passwords have to be changed semi-frequently (every quarter or something) and sometimes they don’t sync across the entire system. OneDrive has issues with symlinks (or whatever windows calls them) - either it’s a Microshit problem or a user problem, I can’t tell, but moving a symlink can sometimes move all the data too.
Not all the products seem to be properly connected like events created in calendars might not create team links despite configured to do so and only add a team link to the meeting when created within the desktop app (a bug known for a few years now). There have also been problems with OneDrive and SharePoint with access rights not being the same, some files missing (hidden or straight up not synced), and a bunch of other things.
I’ve had friends on “workation” walk into my room asking if I could help them with “this microsoft issue” and tell them to straight up ask their support, because I left that turdball of an ecosystem long ago.Boy am I glad I did.
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Windows actually has two types of symlinks:
mklink.Probably, someone managed to create a real symlink in their OneDrive folder, and since OneDrive probably doesn’t check for symlinks it blindly copied all the files to the cloud.
Take all this with a grain of salt — I’m not a Microsoft developer, and it’s been a while since I last used Windows.