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Re:Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions by mark_l_watson on Sunday May 10, 2015 @07:00PM (#9521784)
Thank you! That was a good answer. Just one thing: OneDrive works well, if I may, I suggest giving it a try. Re: software development: I just live inIntelliJ for Clojure, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Typescript, Clojurescript, and Python. IntelliJ runs about the same on every platform. I write my books now with markdown and leanpub, so for writing also operating system choice does not matter.

True confession: I tend to cycle slowly through OSX, Linux, and Windows 8.1 because I like a little change. Similar to programming languages. My strange way to have fun :-)

Re:Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions by kijin on Sunday May 10, 2015 @09:07PM (#9522143)
Does OneDrive work well with half a million files taking up half a TB of space across multiple devices?

Last time I tried it, I could never be sure when my files had synched. OneDrive would just spin in the background, not even using much CPU or network bandwidth, and with no indication of what the hell it was doing, while the file I just edited remained unsynched for hours.

For a product that wanted people to give it the entire content of their hard drives, OneDrive was woefully inadequate at handling large amounts of data. I ended up copying files manually to the device where I needed them to be, relegating OneDrive to the role of an eventually consistent backup.

When my (paid) subscription was up, I canceled it and never used it again. Now I'm much happier with a 1TB plan at SpiderOak.

Re:Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions by seanp2k2 on Sunday May 10, 2015 @11:06PM (#9522475)
I've tried BTSync, Syncthing, Dropbox, and rsync -avuz. The only thing which works consistently and doesn't take up 100% CPU for hours when working with many small files is rsync. Hopefully Syncthing will get there, but I wasn't impressed initially.
Re:Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions by sososoko on Sunday May 10, 2015 @10:30PM (#9522391)
I love OneDrive, possiblt the best native synchronization tool out there, at least for Windows anyway. Mine does a funny thing though, whenever i git clone a repo into a folder in OneDrive it will crash. Does that ever happen to you?
Re:Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions by chronolitus on Monday May 11, 2015 @10:12AM (#9524848)
I observed similar things, although not specifically when cloning
Re:Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions by lewisl9029 on Sunday May 10, 2015 @09:47PM (#9522263)
My experience with OneDrive has been downright abyssal. Even simple tasks like sync'ing a folder of torrents between my desktop and server for auto-watch somehow ends up failing in inexplicable ways.

Such a shame too since they have the best pricing AFAIK. I wish they would just buy Dropbox, integrate it into Windows in place of OneDrive, and call it a day.