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Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching (www.pcguide.com)
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[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are two things that hold me to Windows (10) as my daily driver: MS Office, and support for a virtual file synchronization a la Nextcloud (which I presume piggybacks off of what MS built for OneDrive.)

My secondary laptop, my 4 year old's laptop, my gaming device (Steam deck), homelab, are all on Linux. It has been fun to learn Linux and it's what I intend for my kid to grow up on.

Eventually, when I get a new laptop (current is 8 years old and I'm really hoping Framework gen 2 has a touchscreen) it'll be Linux first... And I hope Nextcloud gets that virtual file sync going by then because a network share/WebDAV connection will make me sad.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and support for a virtual file synchronization a la Nextcloud (which I presume piggybacks off of what MS built for OneDrive.)

What's a virtual file synchronization?

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I may be pulling out the wrong term, but:

The Nextcloud application on Windows shows the entire contents of your Nextcloud account in Windows Explorer, as if they were on your hard drive. They are indexed in search. When you access a file, it dynamically downloads that to your hard drive where it stays and is kept in sync with any changes on the server and the server is updated with any changes to the local file.

Maybe on demand file sync is a better term.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 2 points 1 week ago

Ah, like the Android app. I think the Linux Nextcloud version has an experimental option for it but I never gave it a try.

I assume the partial sync is not sufficient for your use case? I usually only sync the folders I need on that machine.