The browser has rudimentary password management and auto-form filling but there is no way I am touching those. Syncing also works after Microsoft pushed an update so, in theory, I can sync my bookmarks (not that I have many bookmarks in Edge anyway), favourites and history across devices. Every week they would push updates and I have to say it’s relatively stable although it’s a rather bland experience. I installed Edge on my laptop a month ago and have been keeping an eye on it since. Working on Linux just seems so seamless because you are using the same version of cloud software on your laptop as is in the cloud. Sometimes versions of popular cloud software like Docker have issues on Windows that are never fixed because no one cares. Installing dev tools is also much more trivial in my opinion. When I want to push updates to my sites I just use rsync or ssh. My cloud service provider uses Ubuntu for example. In my experience, it just makes things easier. A lot of web developers use Linux for their dev work. Well, it’s not the numbers that are important here. So why bother to make their browser on a platform that is used by less than 2% of computer users? Currently, the browser lags just behind Mozilla Firefox in terms of popularity with Google’s Chrome far far ahead but Microsoft wants that to change. Ubuntu for example is the king of the cloud and no one even comes close.īrowsers are windows to the cloud so it makes sense that Microsoft is pushing the new version Edge, which is now a Chromium-based browser. While Windows has always been the king of desktops, in the data centre Linux rules with an iron fist. The cloud is where the money is these days as more and more services transition from the desktop to the cloud. Of course, this change of heart didn’t come after some selfless epiphany. Back then the CEO of Microsoft once labelled Linux as a cancer that needed to be destroyed. One thing that has changed drastically, something I never dreamt would happen, is the way Microsoft now embraces the Linux platform.
I have been using Linux as my primary operating system for a long long time.
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