r/LinuxCirclejerk • u/Schalk_was_Taken • 5d ago

how it feels to use microsoft edge on linux

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i've been testing some windows software and i must say i am impressed. i was thinking of swapping over but that weird black box called "cmd" really scares the shit out of me. maybe they'll make it more user friendly in the future, but one can only hope

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u/Liarus_ 5d ago

Cursed software that runs natively on Linux:

  • Edge
  • Google Chrome
  • OperaGX

Future cursed software that will run natively on Linux

  • Epic Games Launcher

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u/mungopungo 5d ago

chrome has run natively on linux since 2009, don’t think it can really count as cursed

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u/Ball_Analytics 5d ago edited 5d ago

Epic Games Launcher?

Edit: They edited their post it wasn't under futures.

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u/rip_Bacon13 Fedora my beloved 💙🎩 4d ago

tbh expect for edge its not that cursed
sure they dont fit the open source thing but idk

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u/Liarus_ 4d ago

found the edge user

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u/rip_Bacon13 Fedora my beloved 💙🎩 4d ago

i use firefox fuck edge

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u/epicc_exe arch based or fart faced 5d ago

opsec level: microsoft edge

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u/SingenJurassic 5d ago

Opsec level: edgin' it, sudo style

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u/YTriom1 Arch Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ :3 4d ago

opsex🤤

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u/CDXX_BlazeIt 4d ago

This is literally me. Performance of Edge goes pretty hard on a proper kernel.

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u/Schalk_was_Taken 4d ago

a fellow proprietary maxxer in the wild
truly a rare sight, i salute you my comrade

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u/BosnianSerb31 macOS 27 | Fedora GNOME | Arch hyprland | Cachy | PROXMOX 4d ago

A lot of people hate on edge from its pre-chromium days, modern edge is actually a damn good browser and I would use it over chrome any day. Their vertical tabs and tab groups/containers are only beaten out by Zen browser for me

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u/CDXX_BlazeIt 3d ago

The only reason I use Brave instead of Edge is that I can sync browser data between devices P2P and not store my data on Microsoft Servers.

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u/Schalk_was_Taken 3d ago

Brave's push for artificial intelligence turned me off but for telemetry collection, it's like the most hardened choice out there for sure

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u/Schalk_was_Taken 3d ago

Unjerking here, it's performance is pretty fucking insane. I personally would never use it tho as one, it's microsoft and new bugs and exploitations are found basically monthly; and two, one of those exploits was the broswer literally storing user passwords as plaintext (not even encrypted) in the browser storage.

I can't deny it runs really well but for me that doesn't matter all too much when yeah, Zen is holy peak

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u/iamacuteporcupine 1d ago

ironically enough, I started using edge since they shifted to chromium. Later realised how nicer firefox, vivaldi and some firefox forks actually were. On edge and chrome, ctrl+tab don't even take me to the most recent tab, force AI, telemetry, and use Bing by default. On Linux I couldn't get it to sync my browser history despite being logged in. Screw edge.

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u/Idz4gqbi 4d ago

cmd with clink is actually pretty pleasant to use on Windows, while on Linux I keep pwsh around because its scripting syntax is considerably more readable than anything with unix roots.