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

Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by askmike on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @12:58PM (#13932614)

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 process since you need to make sure all new features also work in this other browser or environment.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by dv_dt on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:07PM (#13932696)

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.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by askmike on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @03:55PM (#13934234)

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

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