The reason MS puts all the main folders in onedrive is because users are tech illiterate. Most dont understand they need to place files into a special directory to be swished away to the cloud service. I know, because I've done the same thing when i setup my parents pc with linux... no matter how many times i explain "just place the files in this folder to automatically synced" all their files just up in the standard home directories never to be synced. I ended up just symbolic linking the home directory to one in the cloud directory. >_>

Now how MS managed to even fucked that up.... well thats a whole other story.

[–] scheep@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

that makes sense...but why is there two of them? That's really weird. And I don't think they want you to quit OneDrive...

Also, since they own the operating system (Windows), they could easily just sync the folders directly. (Documents, Pictures, Desktop, Music, and Videos) That's where most people put their files in, so why not just sync that? Why move everything into a special OneDrive directory with all the issues that comes with that?