In addition to monthly reminders to use Microsoft Edge and Microsoft 365, Windows 11 now recommends using OneDrive. A recent Windows Update triggers a full-screen pop-up for OneDrive, which looks like the OOBE (out-of-the-box experience) that typically pops up when you install Windows 11 for the first time.
First spotted by Windows Latest, Windows 11 has a new pop-up titled “Let’s back up your files,” which appears automatically when you start your PC.
It’s worth noting that OneDrive’s free storage is limited to 5GB, so you need to buy storage to use the Windows Backup feature. It isn’t practically possible to backup your complete PC to OneDrive in the long run unless you have empty folders.
Also, if you do manage to skip the OneDrive pop-up when booting Windows, you’ll see another notification that warns your PC that it is not fully backed up with an alert icon.
It isn’t possible to pause or remove these alerts and full-screen pop-ups in Windows 11 if you live outside the European Union.
Friendly reminder that Linux is free and respects your ownership of your computer.
Windows free since XP
It’s been so nice. My wife and I have really appreciated the steady, stable consistency of our home desktop doing exactly what we want it to do without distractions, all the time.
It’s a simple pleasure, like owning a TV that’s not smart, or visiting a website with no ads. It just does what it’s supposed to do. I want more technology like this in my life.
Funnilly enough getting Linux properly back in my home again (used if for a NAS with a laptop ages ago and been “playing” with it since the 90s) was making my TV smart the right way using a Mini-PC with Lubunto and Kodi to make a TV Media Player (which also does other usefull stuff like be my home’s NAS and Torrent Server over Always On VPN) and replace my ISP’s set up box which had become enshittified.
It’s a great way to bring back true ownership and control of electronics in this day and age of enshittification without having to sacrifice anything.
Switched to Linux earlier this year when I saw the end of Windows 10 support coming. I haven’t looked back since.
I don’t miss that “not for now” or “maybe later” being the only option beside “yes” in prompts.
You may think Linux users are annoying but to be fair Microsoft is frankly begging for the “btw you should use linux” comments with every new windows update
The more users switch to linux, the more windows will need to cater to those users to get them to come back.
As someone who recently made the switch, and felt the immediate relief when I started using an OS that wasn’t actively fighting me, I can’t foresee what Windows could possibly do to convince me to go back. If my distro enshittifies I’ll just switch to a different distro. Fuck the corpos.
Look, this is horrible and everything, but how are people pretending this is new? Occasional updates since Windows 10 have been showing these annoying pre-boot configuration screens even if you’ve skipped them before including ones wanting you to use OneDrive.
I’ve never had that happen on windows 10, and I have three win 10 machines here that get daily use.
If you spend the time and effort and find the half dozen different places to turn off Microsoft ads it probably stops them.
You shouldn’t have to do that and they probably made it even more of a hassle in Windows 11, because they don’t care that you own the computer, they really don’t like you having control over it.
Good for you, so you’re from the EU or any other country that forces MS to stop this bullshit (or at least your installations believe you are).
The language in the fucking pop up. “Skip for now”, implying that at some nebulous future date it won’t be an option.
Eat my whole ass, Bill Microsoft.
It’s called “dark process” and is utilized by so many companies these days.
My first job straight out of uni was a “Marketing Experience Designer” which translated into looking at the company’s product offering and writing papers on where and what dark patterns can be used and to whom.
There’s a special place in hell for people like me 😟 was broke and needed the job.
