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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by Symbiote on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @04:48PM (#13934776)
My manager and I rejected OneDrive when we were comparing different services, because it was slow and unresponsive. I didn't think to try it on Windows, so we chose a competitor.

Linux users are a small minority, but I suspect they have well above average influence in what IT services are purchased.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by Qwertious on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:27AM (#13937933)
>Linux users are a small minority, but I suspect they have well above average influence in what IT services are purchased.

According to the stack exchange official stats that were on the frontpage yesterday, over 30% of developers run Linux Desktop. That's not "a small minority" by any means.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by Symbiote on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:12PM (#13942437)
That's my point.

It is a small minority of users of OneDrive, but a bigger fraction of people like systems administrators, IT department managers and so on, who decide what to buy.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by kristianp on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @07:48PM (#13936210)
"Linux users are a small minority, but I suspect they have well above average influence in what IT services are purchased."

Not really. If you're deciding on a vendor for a bunch of Windows users, you would test it on windows.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by flukus on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @07:55PM (#13936256)
They were deciding on a vendor for a bunch of browser users, not windows users.
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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by vetinari on Thursday March 23, 2017 @05:21AM (#13938318)
Usually the best test for a vendor claim, that their solution is HTML/standards based and works "everywhere" is to test it on some minority platform.

When you find bugs, you can always use them in negotiation.

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