It sadly doesn’t change the fact that those phones barely exists and the few that does are either incredibly old or only very partially supported.

Having OneDrive wouldn’t help as you still won’t be able to use programs as a user, which is pretty much the reason we use computers in the first place, this bug effectively makes whole computers glorified paperweight in the meantime.

The boot process isn’t an user process, Windows would still be able to use the C:/ drive for itself, for every other user software though, that’s another story…

Ok, you’re either stupid or a troll.

In case you are just stupid :

My smartphone is brand new, thank you very much, doesn’t change the fact that android need 6GB of memory to just exist idly…

Yes I am adequating my device with the dislike of a company when said company provide the OS (an important part of the device) an no mean to change it, and said OS is a spyware.

No my PC isn’t a tool to spy on me, my machine, my OS, my rules. I run a Linux system : no Google, Apple or Microslop here.

You may also continue acting dumb.

“More efficient and less annoying than […] a PC.” talks about modern day smartphone

huh?

I’d like to know how a completely underpowered totaly locked down piece of crap I keep struggling with daily is “infinitely more efficient and less anoying” than my well oiled machine running mostly FOSS.

Google is talking about removing the ability to install software while Apple is busy reinventing Windows Aero 20 years later. Meanwhile both are spying on you and no you can’t have any alternative due to how locked down those things are.

Can’t access some parts of the storage of my device due to “security concerns”. Can’t disable some aggressive “optimisations” that keeps killing my apps to prevent OOM, can’t use anything less bloated than the stock OS that uses roughly all the available RAM, AI everywhere…

Add on top of that those fucking “all touch and swipe based” UI that are just a pain, virtual keyboard included. My fat fingers on a tiny over-sensitive touchscreen means a fuck ton of misclics. Bring me back Blackberry or Psion like physical keyboards.

Do you know which computing device I own that isn’t such a pain? My desktop computer, my ol’ reliable!

Bring me a smartphone that doesn’t attempt to dictate how I must use it, that I actually own and with buttons and I might end up liking it. Until then enjoy that corporatist hellscape without me.

Hardly.

The system drive (very usually C:/) is where the Users folder lies by default (and you can’t move it anyway IIRC), folder that contains stuff like the Appdata folder where… well… apps keeps their data like settings, history, backups… Most software will try to access it and would meet an “access denied” error.

This is also the default location for all the documents, music, videos, pictures,[…] folders (but you can change those though)

Basicaly you’d be limited to the “portable” versions of softwares located on other drives, which is not quite the norm on Windows.

Yeah, it is still a laptop in the end. More repairable than most but still a laptop. I just had a problem with the “ecosystem” wording as this is best used to describe unrepairable pieces of crap that refuses third party parts (looking at you, Apple).

What ecosystem? pretty sure the “ecosystem” is standardized computer parts for thinkpads.

Not that I know of, sadly.

Counterpoint : I can buy DRM free .flac from qobuz and actually own them, unrevokably, and store them on my jellyfin server. Absolutely no need for physical optical disks here.

My first “own” smartphone and not second hand from family members was a samsung galaxy s7 I bought in 2016, I kept using it until the battery nearly died (took a whooping… 15 minutes to go from 100% to 0%) in 2022 and I couldn’t simply change it due to the glass back being broken, the screen had severe burn-ins and the OS was no longer maintained so I ended up switching.

That first phone that lasted only 6 years was a valuable lesson, it shaped my wishlist for a “perfect” phone, which ironicaly enough was another samsung one, but xcover rather than S. Hoping that this one with no glass back, an amovible battery, no oled screen and that went from android 12 to 16 (and still going) will last longer.

I wish my old S7 could have any use beside paperweigh but I couldn’t find any sadly.