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. 😂

    • Techognito@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Joining calls doesn’t work for me, tried it again a couple of days ago.

      Discord, Jitsi, Google Meet, Nextcloud Talk and everything else works fine in Firefox, only teams refuses to work.

      • Occhioverde@feddit.it
        3·
        1 year ago

        Strange. The other day I had a call on Teams with a customer and had no problems using Firefox 117.0 on NixOS, but I recall that some months ago some features (like microphone and screensharing) where unavailable.

        Maybe Microsoft hasn’t rolled out the update in your region/org?

        • Techognito@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          My org is slow to get updates, that might be it

          edit: tried call from M$ Teams today and got the popup saying :

          Try a different browser This feature isn’t available yet for your browser. Try the web app with Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome, or switch to the desktop app.

          And then a download link

          I’m on FF117 on Fedora (F38)

          Second edit:

          changing User-Agents worked to remove the popup, but crashed FF instead