Microsoft Edge on Linux: Is It Worth to Try?

Years has passed, Microsoft vs Linux dichotomy is now no longer relevant and no longer necessary. No matter your OS preference, in many circumstances you have to deal with other modern operating systems currently exist.

Talking about Microsoft, they seems to be more realistic and compromise. There is WSL so you can execute Linux binary on Windows, and the biggest deal breaker is, yes, Microsoft Edge.

Microsoft Edge is the newest Windows browser, built on the open source Chromium project. From Linux users point of view, their decision to build a completely new browser based on open source technology is a kind of win.

Finally, over years, Microsoft is not only respect open source technology, but use it to build their primary web browser. Not enough, they also release their browser to Linux users so Linux fellows can taste the delicacy. But, is Microsoft Edge legit and worth to try?

Installation

You can easily download the installer from the official Microsoft Edge download page. If you're using Linux, the web page will recognize your operating system automatically. There are two official Linux installer, DEB and RPM.

Install the downloaded installer by dpkg:
sudo dpkg -i microsoft-edge-stable_****.deb

Features and Performance

I am not a geek, can't dig deeply about technical statistics. But from my casual user experience, Microsoft Edge runs smoothly without any issue. What I can say, it is another Chromium browser.

Of course, there are interesting features offered. You can save and synchronize your session into Microsoft account. Also, there is interesting feature called performance, that offers power optimization to make your CPU works efficiently. The rest are probably just similar to chromium, like Chrome extension compatibility and so on.

In other side, the most interesting fact is the versioning. Despite being released as stable not long ago, Microsoft Edge is now published with version 101.***, simply follows the Chromium current version. It is a lovely respect from Microsoft and we have to respect too.

Conclusion

Honestly, I can't find any significant differences between all of those Chromium spin offs currently exist, except the marketing skin. However, if you want to have a clean, fresh app as your secondary web browser, Microsoft Edge isn't bad at all. Even I give this sleek app a 8,5/10.

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