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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 lighthazard »

AsyncAwait wrote: post #229
skybrian wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Almost always, nobody has any intention to "make it run buggy." It's about making it run well on platforms you care about (and officially support), and ignoring the others. Complicated software is usually fragile enough that it will have similar results.

Simple solution, do not do preferential treatment based on one's OS.

While it's a solution, it's not a simple one. Developers don't have this luxury. Choosing an OS to support means supporting all the APIs and possible ecosystem that comes with it.

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

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Post by askmike »

dv_dt wrote: post #70
askmike wrote: post #60

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And what if some programmers are put unto fixing this, to realise the normal code path has a number of other bugs for linux? If you write web software you clearly define what you support and what you do not. I've fallen into the "I know this browser is not supported, but everything works except for X" trap. Where you first spend a month fixing other bugs that also don't work, only to end up with a more complex QA dev…

It's true, but the flip side is don't offer a web based product if you can't support a wide range of web browsers on multiple OSes. This gives me flashbacks to old (hopefuly dying) "web based" enterprise apps that were browser accessible only by a one magic version of windows explorer with a giant slew of automatically downloaded browser extensions. Just produce an app if that's all that can be supported.

You are right, but I guess Microsoft is somewhat biased towards their own products (Windows in this case).

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

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Post by blahblah12 »

daveloyall wrote: post #172

Remember when I said "mark my words, MS hasn't changed!"? Side note: in this thread, users who mention events of decades past (ie, they are experienced) tend to be more critical of MS.

glad you didn't actually read the analysis of the bug

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

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Post by Veedrac »

mamon wrote: post #216
kbenson wrote: post #208

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I think that's another case of assuming bad intentions. Once Microsoft had a slightly differently behaving version of JavaScript that was in use by hundreds of millions of people, including many enterprise environments with internally developed and bought solutions that required Internet Explorer and it's version of JS and ActiveX to function who more often than not were also large Microsoft customers, the idea of br…

For one, every Linux distribution comes with either Firefox or Chromium preinstalled. Is that monopolistic behaviour? Should EU require Linux developer to provide "Choose your web browser" wizard popping up on every new Linux install, similar way it is on Windows?

> every Linux distribution comes with either Firefox or Chromium preinstalled

False. See, for instance, Arch.

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

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Post by ConceptJunkie »

diggan wrote: post #153
Keverw wrote: post #135

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I found that interesting too. I'm not familiar with office 365, but isn't it web based? So why does it matter what browser or OS you use?

If the one creating a product also creates a OS, making that product run faster on your OS compared to others makes your OS look better I guess.

Kind of a corollary to "It ain't done 'til Lotus won't run."

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

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Post by blahblah12 »

polotics wrote: post #41
davesque wrote: post #11

I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt in my mind here but this is a tough one to explain away.

Stopped giving Microsoft the benefit of the doubt in 1999, never regreted it.

lol, It wasn't nefarious read the reddit thread.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

revelation wrote: post #173
adsfqwop wrote: post #100

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Whenever I google a problem with a microsoft product, and the search ends up on one of these answer.microsoft.com pages, I always click on the link with an enormous feeling of dread. I don't think I've ever seen a usable answer on that site.

At least there is an occasional employee commenting. Have you seen the Google support forums? Google promotes normal users to moderators on their support forums if they just post enough, so instead of being brushed off by some underpaid employee you are being ignored and ridiculed by someone not even being paid to!

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

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Post by herbst »

Twisell wrote: post #157
herbst wrote: post #128

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Yeah after reading some other comments (also on reddit) the idea that they push fixes platform specific and linux just defaults to a state with many missing fixes sounds like a reasonable option.

So they supposedly maintain duplicate version of core functions in plateform specific branch and never merge them to master... That would only be slightly less worse than the sabotaging theory.

Indeed. But it sounds like something _new_ microsoft would do and does not imply that they are still _old_ microsoft with a new hat.
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