I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious… does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?

EDIT: Well, you all have provided some interesting perspectives I hadn’t ever considered. Including one which means I’ll have to install Edge, so… thanks, I guess. 😂

  • PythagoRascal@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I currently use Edge for mostly one thing, its “Read aloud” feature.

    Because you can use some of the Azure neural voices its currently the best, free, easily accessible text-to-speech available.

    It can even do PDFs quite well. Really helps when I’m too unable to focus for reading long texts but can still listen well enough (ADHD).

    • petey
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      1 year ago

      Annoyingly this feature isn’t available in Edge on Linux

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      1 year ago

      I did not know this was a thing. I might have to actually use Edge now.