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Edge on Linux
InYourHeadEdge on Linux is now available through the Insider page https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/ should be cause of celebration for everyone here.
- tomscharbachOct 21, 2020Bronze Contributor
sebisheldin "Edge on Linux is now available through the Insider page ... should be cause of celebration for everyone here."
I agree, with a caveat/caution: Microsoft is directly supporting only Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE, and indirectly supporting other distros (e.g. Kali) that use .deb and .rpm package managers**. Arch and Arch-based distros (e.g. Manjaro) and independents (e.g. Solus) aren't yet supported for installation.
**UPDATE 10/22/2020: I've been seeing a number of reports from Linux users who tried to install Edge on .deb distros not directly supported by Microsoft and experiencing inconsistent results after the browser has been installed. From what I can tell from the reports, the issue seems to involve different/broken dependencies in the distros not directly supported. As anyone who has developed/adapted packages for particular distros knows, sorting out dependencies can be tricky, and in the case of Edge (with no code or dependency lists posted to Github as far as I know) near impossible. The bottom line is that if you install on one of the directly supported distros (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE) you should be fine; if you install on any of the indirectly supported distros, you are on your own.
I've decided to hold off evaluating Edge on Linux until Microsoft is farther along in the process of development (providing Snap or Flatpack instances, for example, so I can use Edge in a real-world, real-work environment on Solus). I don't expect that to happen until after Edge on Linux is released to the public in a few months.