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    • I’m pretty neutral about the mere existence of software I’m not interested in using.

      • I think MS assumes no one will use it. But having Linux builds of some of their software enhances their “MS loves Linux” marketing.

        Teams is another example.

        • MS no longer produces an official Teams binary for Linux. (Correct me if they’ve started doing so again)

          • Fair – what I meant was more about the Teams binary kind of not being needed at all (you can use the web version without it). So having a Linux binary explicitly just seems a little weird, marketing aside.

            • The main reason for building it dedicated instead of as a browser tab is to easily identify it on my task bar as it’s own thing.

      • Pirata@lemm.eedeleted by creator
        10 months

        I opened Edge on a fresh install a couple days ago. The amount of things flashing and spinning and popping up trying to grab my attention actually gave me nausea.

        And I don’t mean (just) ads, I mean even the starting page with all the news, weather, random popups telling me things i can do with Edge, the dark patterns as soon as I searched for Firefox in Bing, and so on.

        The thought that there’s even a single human in the process of developing and maintaining that browser is incredible to me.

        But well, I suppose some people do enjoy it. Just beware it won’t be as fast on Linux as it is in Windows since it isn’t as thoroughly integrated into the OS.

        • I use Edge on my Ubuntu setup. Tried all the browsers that integrate with KeepassXC and Edge won. It’s the only browser that has a nice UI with tabs on a sidebar, decent performance, nice devtools and is not doing shady shit like Vivaldi.

          • Pirata@lemm.eedeleted by creator
            10 months

            What shady shit is Vivaldi doing? I’m out of the loop.

            • They add referral codes to your sessions on Amazon and a like. This way all your purchases are feeding their ref accounts.

              It’s not that bad practice if they’d do it as opt-in. I never consented to this and only figured out once when I looked at networking tab.

        • I honestly like it due to ehat it offerd and how it looks. And it’s kinda optimized. Once V3 rolls in thiugh, I am aiming at Floorp.

          Just switching to new OS and new browser seems kinda meh.