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formula155
Copper Contributor
Nov 10, 2020

Edge installation on Debian linux (Raspberry Pi OS) on Raspberry Pi 400 fails

Hi,   I tried to install Edge using the command line instructions, and also by double clicking on a downloaded debian installer package, and both installs failed. This is using a Raspberry Pi 400 r...
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HotCakeX
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Dec 31, 2020
I think the community that are waiting for it should send feedback to Edge developers using feedback button on Edge or form here:
https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/support

more feedbacks mean higher priority and they will know how many people want it
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formula155
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Dec 31, 2020

HotCakeX 

 

Hi,

 

I did provide feedback as suggested to the Edge team. Didn't hear anything back so I assume this is not in the plans right now.

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    tomscharbach
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    Jan 01, 2021

    formula155 "I did provide feedback as suggested to the Edge team. Didn't hear anything back so I assume this is not in the plans right now."

     

    I suspect that you are right. 

     

    Microsoft Edge supports Edge on https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/10/20/microsoft-edge-dev-linux/ distros, the same distros for which Microsoft supports WSL.  If Microsoft has plans to support additional distros in the future, Microsoft has not announced those plans.  I did listen to a podcast a month or so ago in which a Microsoft spox said that Microsoft may extend support to additional distros after Stable is released, but "may" doesn't mean "will".  Microsoft has announced that Microsoft will support Edge on Apple's M1 SoC, but has not said anything (to my knowledge) about support for Linux on Broadcom's BCM-series SoC.

     

    So far, Microsoft's embrace of Edge-Linux (and WSL) has been aligned with (and more or less limited to) the needs of the Enterprise base.  Because Edge is neither fully open source nor freely distributable, we are all just going to have to wait and see what Microsoft does outside the Enterprise base, keeping the pressure on as much as we can.

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