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Nice of them to make something so that CI/CD systems can run tests of frontend functionality in Edge without requiring a Windows runner.

Because I cannot imagine anyone will use this unironically as their browser on their Linux desktop.

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I will absolutely use this unironically on Linux, and I can't wait. Edge has all (most?) of the features of Chrome and isn't tied to Google's services. Somehow the world has twisted to where I trust Microsoft more than Google, even if it's just to not shut their stuff down on a whim. I'm trying to get all my services off Google, and if it weren't for Voice... You ought to unironically try it.

As far as I know MS doesn’t tie your browser login with their web apps login. If true that’s enough reason to use Edge over Chrome.

Personally, I’ll stick with Firefox. Especially now that you can choose your default browser in iOS, with my Firefox data synced across all devices no matter the platform it’s a great experience.

Why send your data to Big Tech when today you can avoid it (ungoogled chromium et al)?

I am on Windows and I would like to use ungoogled Chromium but I don't see it as a choice because it does not have automatic updates and I am concerned about my security. I suppose this is a solved problem on Linux?

There are repos that carry it, but doesn't the Windows version autoupdate? Or at least warn you of an update?

I’m unironically using Firefox.

Does Chromium not fit this bill?? ( I really don't know)

It's like people forgot firefox exists ;_;

If your workload does not consist of synthetic benchmark development or hardcore webgl stuff, firefox is more than capable of being used as your daily driver. Hell, it once had over 30% of market share. Also, its more configurable, and offers interesting privacy features.

People who want SSO to work with Azure AD (which Edge, at least on Windows and Mac, has special sauce for), and people who have IT Departments that force them to (for SSO and for the most likely Defender ATP integration that'll come eventually).

I absolutely will run Edge on Linux as soon as it's ready. It's the same Chrome but with a much stronger privacy promise from Microsoft.

I'll definitely use it as soon as the linux version gets the text-to-speech version that the windows build has, which is really good.

I'd use it. It's a chromium based browser by someone not being investigated for antitrust

It's funny how Microsoft became the lesser evil after being considered worse than Satan for a very long time. I don't disagree with you, but it's still funny.

Some of us are too young to really understand the anti-Microsoft sentiment of the 90s and early 2000s. All I remember from that era is that “Microsoft is bad”; I never completely understood why it was bad. Then Facebook and Google came along and I got a front row seat to their descent into the depths of the moral abyss. So from my perspective, Microsoft is the lesser of 3 evils.

In the early 90's, there was a multitude of computing platforms to chose from, and Windows was considered no more than a graphical shell on top of DOS. Amiga, Atari, Macintosh, OS/2, RiscOS and several others were all contending for a slice of the cake, but by '97 most alternatives had either gone bankrupt or forced into small nieche markets.

Obviously Microsoft had nothing to do with the fact that most of those pretty much died due to their own failures, but many, many people blamed Microsoft for using their OEM deals to push the other players out and thereby killing off their favourite platform. When Microsoft started using seriously anti-competitive behaviour when they pushed Explorer with Windows, they also forced a feature race with Netscape (who ultimately lost, as we all know), and that race was the last nail in the coffin for the alternative platforms. There were no open source web browsers back then, and commercial alternatives for platforms like the Amiga simply couldn't keep up. Explorer became a killer app, and Windows pretty much took it all, apart from Apple which managed to survive because of Microsoft funding. And boy, those Amiga and Atari users can be rabid about Microsoft. I know. I used to be one of them. :D

I've always thought the hatred was a bit overblown. Bundling an Internet browser with an operating system was that big a deal? Not just to lawmakers but hackers? Boy are we way past that now.

By someone not being investigated for antitrust this year.

Visit beautiful Germany- a country not committing genocide this year.

You know that was a long time ago right?

I'm sure they'll have another go.

Too bad they were convicted on those charges.

I will. I think it is good with challengers and look forward to try it.

Why use Edge over Chromium on Linux?

Because Edge will sync all my stuff across all devices. I use Linux, and OneNote, and OneDrive and all the above.

Why not? Perhaps it is better. I will try to see.

Why not? It’s just Chromium.

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