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. 😂
I don’t use it for browsing but only for two use cases :
- Editing PDFs. Firefox does it, but stupidly if you reopen the file you can’t edit previous edits. Like you write something on the pdf, turn off your computer, a day later you want to edit the text, you can’t. But Edge remembers text blocks and you can edit even after you reopen the file. That’s why I use it
- Bing Chat
I use it as the only browser for work. I don’t have choices, because Teams and Outlook with all its’ functionality works well only in their own browser, edge…
I even write some userscript to improve it because it’s broken… :/
I don’t use it as its proprietary and spyware
I used to because they gave out free coupons for various things (like Amazon). The issue I had with it is that the right-click menu for Edge on Linux overrides the OS and that of a browser. It was annoying enough to go back to Firefox.
Yep, I use for Xbox cloud gaming on steam deck.
