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tomscharbach
Mar 20, 2021Bronze Contributor
Edge-Linux Flatpak Beta - Unofficial
Microsoft Edge Dev is now available for testing in an unofficial* Flatpak beta. This might be of interest to Community members using Arch-based or independent (e.g. Solus, KaOS, Clear Linux) distros...
dtantono115
Mar 21, 2021Copper Contributor
that is wonderful and I know Edge for Linux is still unfinished with missing Microsoft sync account. Suppose, edge get a stable version. Will you release the edge stable for flatpak as well?
tomscharbach
Mar 21, 2021Bronze Contributor
dtantono115 "Suppose, edge get a stable version. Will you release the edge stable for flatpak as well?"
I am not affiliated with or contributing to the project, but I understand that Edge-Linux Stable will be packaged when it is released, and put into the Flathub stable repository.
- dtantono115Mar 21, 2021Copper ContributorBecause flatpak and snap package almost has a similar characteristic. do you also plan for edge for snap as well?
- nycnikatoNov 03, 2021Copper ContributorIf they do a snap as well, then they continue more fragmentation Flatpaks already tun everywhere, including futuristic Linux distributions that only run flatpaks. Hopefully Microsoft will have the wisdom to say.... one format is enough.
- TheEvilSkeletonNov 03, 2021Copper ContributorSadly they're not planning to support Flatpak. I only opened an issue a while ago: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/Status/issues/704#issuecomment-897805781. I think it's a stupid idea to not support Flatpak but not much can be done I guess.
- tomscharbachMar 21, 2021Bronze Contributor
"Because flatpak and snap package almost has a similar characteristic. do you also plan for edge for snap as well?"
Again, I'm not affiliated with or contributing to the project, but this project, as I understand it, is limited to Flatpak.Microsoft may release Edge-Linux as a Snap after a Stable version is released. Microsoft has released official Snaps for several other Microsoft applications, and it would make sense for them to do so with Edge-Linux.