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Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by jhoechtl on Monday July 22, 2019 @12:18PM (#20499480)
Linux users are tech-savy, know how to file bug reports ans help oberproportionally to improve a product.

May be another explanation.

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Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by davesmith1983 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:29AM (#20512568)
I would beg to differ. There are a lot of people / kids using it that don't really understand what is going on under the hood.

Also the number of bugs that get marked as Won't Fix that are real problems by upstream doesn't help so a lot of people like myself just don't bother after a while and just end up using something else or living with it being broken.

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Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by Barrin92 on Monday July 22, 2019 @12:26PM (#20499569)
yet another explanation may be the fractured nature of the eco system. Every time I look at linux software bug trackers a good portion is distro related.
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Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by CountSessine on Monday July 22, 2019 @01:53PM (#20500452)
This is why the right way to support linux is to solidly support exactly one and only one distro, and then let the rest conform or work around it.
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