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Microsoft Edge, anyone? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cujo@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious... does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?

EDIT: Well, you all have provided some interesting perspectives I hadn't ever considered. Including one which means I'll have to install Edge, so... thanks, I guess. 😂

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[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a browser it’s fine, but Microsoft asking me to use it every 0.001 seconds really turns me off it.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I was all over Edge when it was in beta. Since release though it's just become bloated with Microsoft's shit. Not to mention in Windows Microsoft has a fucking hard-on for making it the default browser. Even if you don't, Outlook defaults to using it regardless.

[–] GodIsNull@feddit.de -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It only asks you to use it on windows or MS platforms. I hope you can see the issue now. I don't use arch btw.

[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I wouldn’t know, since MS’s incessant badgering has made me 0% likely to ever install it on any of my linux machines.