No, you're thinking about the Microsoft Account login (which still has workarounds but whatever). OneDrive needs to have its own separate login, in case you, like me, have a separate account for work or need to have multiple One Drive accounts or if you have paid One Drive, 365 and whatnot.

So you can absolutely log in to Windows with a MS account and log in to One Drive with your work account... or not log in at all and just not have it running, which is what I do.

I have installed Win11 on a new computer build this year. I promise I'm looking at my system tray and there is zero One Drive icons on it. No One Drive folder in my Windows file explorer, either.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Well I've never purposely logged into One Drive but my "Documents" and "Pictures" folders' paths have been inside of an One Drive folder every time since at least win10.

The last time I installed win11 one of the very first things I did was move all the default libraries out of one drive.