Edit: Looks like you can opt-out of that "new look and feel" pretty easily under the appearance settings but still, whats with putting rounded corners everywhere?

Edit 2: "Explore the web with a softer, more friendly aesthetic featuring rounded corners [..] Designed to complement your operating system, whether on Windows 11, MacOS, or Linux." The fuck does that mean? Windows 11 fair enough but most Linux distros don't look like that at all.

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[–] 74 points 3 years ago (12 children)

I gotta say I love that Microsoft has the self confidence to think that there are people who use edge on Linux.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    There are. It was surprising to me but apparently there is a decent number of people who use edge on Linux.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Is there even a version of edge for Linux??

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Yea.

    It's reskinned chromium. You can google it if you want. One of the top links is a .deb for me (I am running debian).

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    That's .. just what Edge is? On every OS it's Chromium, they're not shy about that fact. In fact they made a big deal of advertising that they were switching from whatever engine they were trying to half-bake when "new" Edge debuted.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I do. It's more secure than any other alternative. Not private, but really, really secure.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    How is Edge secure in any way? It isn’t even open source & and both Google (Chromium) and Microsoft add their code to it, so even if Chromium were more secure than Firefox, you could just normal Chromium, couldn’t you?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Not being open source ≠ not safe.

    Microsoft ships hardened Chromium basically, with sandboxing turned up to eleven.

    They also run their SmartScreen filtering on top of that.

    Also, Firefox is more private, not secure. Either you run LibreFox or it's less secure than Edge by default.

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