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Some review on Edge Chromium on Linux
yellowdogvn "First, I can't sync with my Microsoft account. That's why I still have to use both Edge Chromium and Chrome."
Microsoft has said that it plans to bring sync to Edge-Linux, but has not provided a timetable for that essential feature. Without MSA sign-in and sync, Edge-Linux is more-or-less bling, not useful for end users. But that's fair -- Edge-Linux at this point is intended for testing and use by developers, not end users. MSA sign-in and Sync will probably be in place before a Stable version is released.
At present Microsoft officially supports only Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE distros, although Edge-Linux seems to install properly and work acceptably on Ubuntu flavors/derivatives (Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Mate and so on). Edge-Linux is not available for Arch-based distros or independents like Solus and Intel's Clear Linux.
A Microsoft team member is reported to have said in a December podcast that support will be extended to additional distros after Stable is released, but Microsoft has given no timetable. Many of us are hoping that Microsoft will issue a Snap or Flatpak version.
We will just have to be patient.
yellowdogvn "First, I can't sync with my Microsoft account. That's why I still have to use both Edge Chromium and Chrome."
Microsoft has said that it plans to bring sync to Edge-Linux, but has not provided a timetable for that essential feature. Without MSA sign-in and sync, Edge-Linux is more-or-less bling, not useful for end users. But that's fair -- Edge-Linux at this point is intended for testing and use by developers, not end users. MSA sign-in and Sync will probably be in place before a Stable version is released.
At present Microsoft officially supports only Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE distros, although Edge-Linux seems to install properly and work acceptably on Ubuntu flavors/derivatives (Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Mate and so on). Edge-Linux is not available for Arch-based distros or independents like Solus and Intel's Clear Linux.
A Microsoft team member is reported to have said in a December podcast that support will be extended to additional distros after Stable is released, but Microsoft has given no timetable. Many of us are hoping that Microsoft will issue a Snap or Flatpak version.
We will just have to be patient.
yellowdogvn "It's lucky that I'm going to move to Arch (: BTW, Edge-Linux is really great though it's dev version."
I use Solus so I'm in the same boat, waiting to see if Microsoft decides to support Edge-Linux outside the Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/openSUSE corporate/enterprise universe, and if so, how far. Microsoft doesn't support WSL outside that universe, so I'm not optimistic that we will ever see native support for Arch-based or independent distros. Snap is a Canonical initiative, though, and I've not given up hope that Microsoft will release a Snap at some point.