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Due to OneDrive so aggressively activating/reactivating "features" I don't want, I've removed it from my Windows computers - very carefully, step-by-step, as follows: 1. Copy all folders/files within your OneDrive folder to a safe location - an external 2TB USB3 SSD drive, in my case. 2. Set all folders/files to be available offline (this will copy everything on OneDrive to your local computer), on all PCs. 3. Check that the Backup "feature" is disabled, and stop synchronization in your Windows OneDrive app, on all computers. 4. Disable your OneDrive app, then remove/uninstall it in Settings | Apps | Installed apps, on all computers. 5. Sign out of OneDrive and delete everything in your OneDrive folder that you can, on any laptop/secondary PCs you may have, then delete everything that you can in your OneDrive folder on your desktop/primary PC, and check that everything's removed from OneDrive online after emptying the Recycle Bin there, then sign out of ...

Introduction/Information I dual-boot Windows with Garuda GNU/Linux (the KDE-Lite flavor). At present, no Arch-based distribution supports secure boot out-of-the-box, but Windows 11 wants secure boot enabled, so I went looking for a solution. I found one that integrates secure-boot support into my Arch-based GNU/Linux distribution on the CachyOS Wiki that uses the sbctl package, and it works flawlessly for me, with one caveat that your computer must have the ability to enter set-up mode, or manage/delete PK keys in the EFI (BIOS) interface. A second caveat is that only dual-boot (Windows with a single GNU/Linux distribution) works at present, and I have not yet learned a way to use sbctl with non-Arch-based distributions, unless they have the package available in their repository. With that said, the best feature of sbctl is that it creates a post-build hook so when you get an updated kernel, the image gets automatically signed for you as part of the installation, so you don't ha...