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The only thing Edge is good for is downloading literally any other browser…
We wouldn‘t even need it for that if their Windows store versions of browsers weren‘t so terrible.
It also has a good use of being the toilet of browsers. As in, if you ever are required to temporarily install some pervasive plugin or extension to take a proctored exam or something, Edge is good to use because you know you won't use the that browser for anything you care about and you can protect good browsers from those garbage plugins.
That's what I have an entire laptop for. I call it the Dust Collector. It's sole purpose is to collect dust and maybe once or twice a year be ready for a proctored exam. It's not even allowed on my home network.
Better to use winget, though. That way you don't even need to bother with Edge's initial setup screens.
Better to use apt-get though. That way you don't even need to bother with the dumpster fire that is Windows 11.
Better to build from source, that way you don't have to deal with the snap versions of the program
Gentoo user: "Of course we build from source! (What are snaps?)"
As Ftumch said, winget is really the way to go these days. No browser, just:
Terminal > winget install mozilla.firefox > Done.
It's good for viewing PDFs
I think Firefox does that just as well, and also allows you to edit them.
No, that was IE. Edge is decent enough browser for normies, equal to chrome.
You're not wrong. Edge is just Chromium with MS branding. It's not a bad browser like IE was.
Although if they do shit like this it will be.
Fair enough, let me rephrase that to "5 years ago, edge was decent enough". But so many big companies are ruining their product with AI these days. It s almost the status quo.
Edge is nice at work because it works with all the apps we have that still expect IE rendering quirks.
I wouldn’t bother with it if you are at home.