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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by nathantotten on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:06PM (#13932688)
You don't know when this code was written or what the original purpose was. User agent detection used to be a best practice. Onedrive for business is a mountain of legacy software going from sharepoint to groove to who knows what. This bug could be buried in some library that was written 5+ years ago. Maliciously going out of your way to not support Linux sounds like a good way to have your code review rejected.
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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by emn13 on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:25PM (#13932882)
To this day, user agent detection is the only (practical) way to avoid sending large polyfills to the 95% of clients that don't need them.
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