Utility of Linux dev channel users?

Hey there! I fully recognize that I'm rocking the community manager signature and might be exactly who you don't want to hear from on this, but here we go anyway! Your feedback from the Dev channel does meaningfully contribute and the team does pay attention to it. Let me pull back the curtain a little bit though.

Generally speaking, the team doesn't respond to individual bug reports unless they need specific additional information to recreate a problem, but in most cases with Linux just having the distro, Edge version, and repro steps is more than enough for the team working on the Linux builds to reproduce the issues on their own machines and debug from there. For feedback items, it's much the same story -- the team rarely responds to individual feedback, but they do read it and it hugely informs what's next to work on and what changes to make. 

You also highlighted that you're a poweruser, it's great to have your submissions because (as you well know) you're going to catch things that someone who's not pushing their system just won't. And, sorry, I totally have to do the Community Manager thing, you can just stop reading if you're over it! We've had a couple of Linux bugs recently that were solved specifically because folks posted here about them. The value of that early feedback from our Dev users is obvious, to me and to the team as a whole. The team can and will investigate bugs based on a single piece of feedback, posted here or through in-browser feedback, so there's plenty of room to make a difference as a Dev user. 

Alex Rowell (she/her)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge