we have wildly different definitions for “mildly”!
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Eggyhead@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Their deliberate word choice of “upgrade” to supported operating system is mildly infuriating.
noxypaws@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
They probably assume you are running something like Windows 7
voodooattack@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Uhh
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Right, but that could still be given dynamically by a library as “one of the unsupported ones”, getOSName(). They still might not have hard-coded “Linux is bad”.
Hupf@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I’d like to interject for a moment…
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Wow, I laughed far too much after reading this comment. Thank you kind stranger.
AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They know which operating system you use based on the user agent, so they know it’s Linux.
biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Which will be “If not Windows 11 or Mac os then report os string”. I don’t think they specifically took the time to research different OS’s and list them.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 3 weeks ago
Hupf@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Captain, what should we do? She’s not on the list.
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
The program has the information, but that doesn’t mean the people that wrote the code felt it was worth their time to make the “upgrade” text inclusive to Linux, if they even considered the possibility of Linux.
Littux@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If they were using user agents for identification, Android browsers on “Desktop mode” would be wrongly identified as “Linux”. Even Discord has this issue on their download page. “Premium” Android devices with large screens use Desktop mode by default