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[–] 99 points 7 months ago (14 children)

The only thing Edge is good for is downloading literally any other browser…

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  • [–] 51 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It also has a good use of being the toilet of browsers. As in, if you ever are required to temporarily install some pervasive plugin or extension to take a proctored exam or something, Edge is good to use because you know you won't use the that browser for anything you care about and you can protect good browsers from those garbage plugins.

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  • [–] 28 points 7 months ago*

    That's what I have an entire laptop for. I call it the Dust Collector. It's sole purpose is to collect dust and maybe once or twice a year be ready for a proctored exam. It's not even allowed on my home network.

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Better to use winget, though. That way you don't even need to bother with Edge's initial setup screens.

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Better to use apt-get though. That way you don't even need to bother with the dumpster fire that is Windows 11.

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  • [+] -12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    No, that was IE. Edge is decent enough browser for normies, equal to chrome.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You're not wrong. Edge is just Chromium with MS branding. It's not a bad browser like IE was.

    Although if they do shit like this it will be.

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