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. 😂

  • Dukeofdummies@kbin.social
    27·
    1 year ago

    I always use edge whenever I’m making a public presentation with a computer I use. Simply because I never use it. Then autocomplete won’t embarrass me if we look something up.

    • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
      152·
      1 year ago

      Why dont use any other browser, like vivaldi, brave, librewolf, ungoogled chromium, that are not made by data hungery big tech like Microsoft.

      • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
        5·
        1 year ago

        Those are all solid options, so you might be tempted to use them. I keep a windows partition on case I need it for something, but I’m never tempted to use it unless I absolutely have to.

      • mariom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Or just launch second profile… Firefox / chrome(ium) supports it. No need to use different browser.

      • 30p87@feddit.de
        31·
        1 year ago

        Many of those have shady Histories and CEOs. Many are seemingly made by normal companies, but those are owned by Chinese organizations. The only real alternatives would be Librewolf/FF and Degoogled Chromium. That would be a matter of preference, mostly. And you don’t even have to use Librewolf, you could just use a seperate, clean profile in FF. Launch it with firefox -profilemanager or on about:profiles, @dukeofdummies@lemmy.world

    • cmnyboEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Firefox allows you to create multiple profiles, so you can make a separate profile for presentations rather than give more data to microsoft.

      You can create and switch profiles by going to about:profiles. There is also the -p argument you can add to shortcuts to launch a specific profile.