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. 😂

  • mholiv@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    1 year ago

    It has a slightly better privacy policy compared to google chrome while fully supporting progressive web apps on Linux. Edge is also very much so more efficient in terms of system resource utilization. It also has high quality native built in translation which I need. All of this means I use Edge as my PWA browser.

    Chromium lacks native translation support. Firefox PWA support is not good. Edge was the least bad option for me. 🤷‍♀️

        • 30p87@feddit.de
          9·
          1 year ago

          And Edge is chromium + Microsoft Bloat.

          One could argue using it on Windows means only allowing M$ to spy on you, theoretically. Though I would not be surprised if M$ uses a custom version of Chromium including Google trackers, so the opposite of degoogled chromium.

      • railsdev@programming.dev
        2·
        1 year ago

        When it initially came out it actually seemed pretty great. I’m as anti-Microsoft as they come but I had to check it out.

        But yeah, these days it’s pure trash. It was fun while it lasted.

        • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          The core browser is still good, but they keep changing and adding annoying things and doing questionable privacy things like sending images to their servers “for enhancement”. For a while they removed the ability to remove sync data, but I think it may have been added back again after backlash.