I can't really blame people for using Edge since I using VSCode daily 😞
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I just found out about VSCodium. Its a project that packages the MIT licensed VS Code source without all the M$ telemetry and crud. Be warned, there are apparently many plugins that don't work with Codium, so if you rely heavily on any specific plugin I'd see if it works properly before committing.
It's still relying on Microsoft code, but at least it's specifically the open source bits. Lol!
Just wait until Microsoft releases a .deb of Windows Terminal.
Powershell is already available for Linux
Well I guess if you need scripts to work in a mixed Windows/Linux environment that makes sense. On the other hand the few times I have to touch powershell it's so verbose and cryptic at the same time, so I think I'll stick with bash personally.
As a PowerShell expert, I can confirm it is suuuper verbose and yet cryptic. It’s a real shell, much better than it’s predecessor, but still with plenty of bad decisions in its design and implementation. My theory is that they only watched a 1-hour presentation on Bash before spending a weekend designing PowerShell.
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Yep, I use for Xbox cloud gaming on steam deck.
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.. :/
As a browser it’s fine, but Microsoft asking me to use it every 0.001 seconds really turns me off it.
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I am not judging anyone who uses Edge here, I can understnad the appeal of it. I just am sad that Linux doesn't have Microsoft like feature that there isn't a great alternative for Google + Bard, Microsoft GPT.
I want everything FOSS, but yeah, I will sleep now. I am too old for the new gen.
I've used it just to access Bing Chat, which has become my go to AI chatbot for a couple of reasons: 1) you theoretically get access to gpt 4 without paying 20 dollars a month, 2) it cites it's sources, and 3) it can create images via DALLE from within the chat (which is handy, you can chat with the AI to help you think of an image prompt, the just say "ok make an image based on that description"). Other then that, i use Firefox at home. At work our choices are chrome or edge, so I use edge because of bing chat and I kind of like the layout better. It feels like choosing between buying something from Amazon or Walmart, which terrible corporation do I hate more in a given moment.
FYI you can use Bing AI in Firefox by spoofing the user-agent header
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I used it once to use the in browser bug report thing to request that they support immersive WebXR on linux.
In my opinion, the only proprietary browner (and remember that it is partially proprietary) worth even though it is proprietary is Vivaldi
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Bullshit. Even the flatpak is not sandboxed very much. If you sandbox it totally then maybe. But I dont know.
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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
Ooh, thanks for pointing that out! I haven't used it, but now I will start installing it for every colleague's Linux user when I get the chance, just to mess with them. Might even change their bash's prompt to the DOS one.
(These edge installs of mine will probably account for half of all edge on Linux installs ever, btw)
Although I am required to use windows machines for work normally and, since we dont have access to firefox, i normally use edge there, there are occasions on which I find it convenient to hop into a similar setup on my home linux machine to get to my work account. I will use edge for that - as well as outlook online etc.
For a work browser, I find it pretty useful. There is no way that I would want to use if for general purposes though.