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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by AsyncAwait on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @03:44PM (#13934120)
Simple solution, do not do preferential treatment based on one's OS.
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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by lighthazard on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @03:55PM (#13934230)
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.
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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by AsyncAwait on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:03PM (#13934928)
But they're not supporting an OS, but a browser here.

If it works in Firefox on Windows, there's no technical reason for it not to work the same way in Firefox on Linux.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by emodendroket on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @07:06PM (#13935909)
Yeah there's no reason at all that anything would work differently in one browser or another, signed, a guy who has never done Web development.
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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by minitech on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @09:28PM (#13936746)
Again: operating system, not browser.
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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by allannienhuis on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:51AM (#13937642)
There are differences in supported features on different OS's with the same browser. They don't ship identical bits on each platform. The differences are pretty minor OS integration things usually, but there are differences.
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