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Microsoft Edge, anyone? (self.linux)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cujo to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

How is edge more efficient? It's literally chromium

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Chrome is basically Chromium+bloat so this doesn't surprise me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Based on.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

With the same amount of tabs with the same sites Edge uses fewer resources. I think Microsoft did some fine tuning or something. It’s not just just me that sees this either.

This is a 2 year old link but it shows the difference. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/chrome-firefox-edge-ram-comparison