I see a lot of people complaining about this, what exactly is wrong with onedrive as opposed to Google drive or Dropbox? Haven't used Dropbox in many years. They all just sync files which is what I need them for.
I’m just one person. So take my opinion for what it is: just my opinion.
I started using Dropbox in high school and it has always “just worked”. I use the native app on Windows, iOS, and OSX. It’s essentially a virtual drive on all my devices and it backs up all my phone’s pictures and videos automatically. I can probably count on one hand the number of times Dropbox has annoyed me in the last 15 years. Maybe it’s overpriced, but at least it’s reliable. That’s worth a lot to me.
I experimented with Google drive as an alternative in college. It worked pretty well on android devices, but there was just enough friction on other OS’s that I abandoned it as a general file system. My g drive is basically just a graveyard of Google docs that I will never care to organize and random gmail attachments that ended up there for whatever reason.
Onedrive is by far the last choice I would make. My only experiences with it are (1) when Microsoft tries to force it on me/upsell me when I’m using office on my personal desktop or (2) when an employer uses it as their approved file sharing system. In my experience, it is consistently the least reliable of the three solutions. While Dropbox “just works”, I fully expect Onedrive to “just make me restart my computer, sign out and back in again, give up and just share the thing through slack.”
I used Dropbox until it stopped just working, added 3 device limit and gated the cloud drive feature under much more expensive teams plan. And switched to OneDrive.
Google drive app always was wonky and used filenames to store internal state (breaking for example Calibre database)
OneDrive Family plan is still the cheapest and largest cloud storage (6TB of cloud storage for $99/year).