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Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

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Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

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Post by kbart »

emodendroket wrote: post #375
hrktb wrote: post #326

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft was not just 'borderline unethical', it got charged times and times for severe illegal practices. Apple is far from there (yet ?)

The stuff Apple does on iOS is worse than the worst of the Windows lockin. The difference is a DOJ that is not interested in monopoly cases.

Apple is legacy hardware vendor, I don't see anything wrong making software for you own hardware to complete ecosystem. MS, on the other hand, tried to capture, lock in users' generic hardware and kill competitors, which is totally different case imho.

Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

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Post by Piskvorrr »

gkya wrote: post #329
Piskvorrr wrote: post #313

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Decades old. The GWX consent brouhaha is decades old? Edge (not IE) becoming the default browser all by itself is decades old? Riiiiiiiight. Decades of consistent data, methinks.

I really don't get why they can't put the browser they like as the defaultone into their OS. Not that I'm an MS apologetic (I don't really use anything MS since time immemorial) but it seems silly to me, frankly.

As far as I am concerned, they can. But they are not bloody supposed to change it again, after I have changed it to something of my choosing. I am sick and tired of "yeah, so you have set your default browser to FF, but we know better than you what you want; so we have reset it again on yet another Patch Tuesday. Admit it, YOU WANT THE E!" (Consent, what consent?)

Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

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Post by Piskvorrr »

bubblethink wrote: post #348
gkya wrote: post #329

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really don't get why they can't put the browser they like as the defaultone into their OS. Not that I'm an MS apologetic (I don't really use anything MS since time immemorial) but it seems silly to me, frankly.

I think it has a habit of changing itself to default even after the user sets something else as the default. Minor annoyance though compared to the overall pain of using a windows machine.

"Minor" depends on whom you ask: each time this happens, MS generates n angry support tickets...for me, not for themselves, of course: "the computer is broken again and I have lost all bookmarks and sign-in data, why did you break it again?!?" (The good news is, of course, that nothing is "lost" except for the default browser flag: resetting to FF fixes it...until next time)

Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

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Post by emodendroket »

kbart wrote: post #441
emodendroket wrote: post #375

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The stuff Apple does on iOS is worse than the worst of the Windows lockin. The difference is a DOJ that is not interested in monopoly cases.

Apple is legacy hardware vendor, I don't see anything wrong making software for you own hardware to complete ecosystem. MS, on the other hand, tried to capture, lock in users' generic hardware and kill competitors, which is totally different case imho.

Why? That is worse.

Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

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Post by ldev »

annnnd wrote: post #417
iliketosleep wrote: post #404

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Kudos for fixing the issue. I do question whether it was originally tested throughly on Linux in the first place, otherwise it's hard to see how such a major bug could have crept in.

This! As a Linux user I don't really care if someone is neglecting my platform of choice or purposefully sabotaging it, I'll just move on in any case. Not performing testing on Linux is inexcusable in my book in this day and age. It seems like a bad idea to check for capabilities by parsing user agent string anyway - I though we all figured that out about 20 years ago? JavaScript allows web page to check for capabili…

> Not performing testing on Linux is inexcusable in my book in this day and age.

No, wasting time for two open minded users instead of working for 99,999% users is inexcusable.

Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

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Post by column »

dim13 wrote: post #436
ebang4 wrote: post #401

Hi everyone, this is Edgar from the OneDrive team. We know that some users may have experienced difficulty accessing OneDrive for Business on Linux. The issue was resolved as of Tue, March 22nd 3pm PST. We identified that StaticLoad.aspx, a page that prefetches resources in the background for Office online apps was using the link prefetching browser mechanism only for certain platforms (iOS, Chrome OS, Mac, Windows),…

> The issue was resolved as of Tue, March 22nd 3pm PST. Just tried (Thu Mar 23 10:25:18 CET 2017) -- the bug is still here.

Read his post again

Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

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Post by emodendroket »

Piskvorrr wrote: post #442
gkya wrote: post #329

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really don't get why they can't put the browser they like as the defaultone into their OS. Not that I'm an MS apologetic (I don't really use anything MS since time immemorial) but it seems silly to me, frankly.

As far as I am concerned, they can. But they are not bloody supposed to change it again , after I have changed it to something of my choosing. I am sick and tired of "yeah, so you have set your default browser to FF, but we know better than you what you want; so we have reset it again on yet another Patch Tuesday. Admit it, YOU WANT THE E!" (Consent, what consent?)

Does this only happen with certain configurations or something? I've been using Windows 10 since it came out and can't really remember this happening to me

Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

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Post by m0skit0 »

ebang4 wrote: post #401

Hi everyone, this is Edgar from the OneDrive team. We know that some users may have experienced difficulty accessing OneDrive for Business on Linux. The issue was resolved as of Tue, March 22nd 3pm PST. We identified that StaticLoad.aspx, a page that prefetches resources in the background for Office online apps was using the link prefetching browser mechanism only for certain platforms (iOS, Chrome OS, Mac, Windows),…

I'm 100% sure it was not intentional!

Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

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Post by [deleted] »

faragon wrote: post #431
ebang4 wrote: post #401

Hi everyone, this is Edgar from the OneDrive team. We know that some users may have experienced difficulty accessing OneDrive for Business on Linux. The issue was resolved as of Tue, March 22nd 3pm PST. We identified that StaticLoad.aspx, a page that prefetches resources in the background for Office online apps was using the link prefetching browser mechanism only for certain platforms (iOS, Chrome OS, Mac, Windows),…

So for the "New Microsoft" releasing a bug fix for a "bug" affecting customers using Linux for more than 3 months it just required to be popular at Hacker News and Reddit.

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