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. 😂

  • TeaEarlGrayHot@lemmy.caEnglish
    71·
    10 months ago

    I use Edge daily–trying to use mostly non-proprietary software, but when I need to annotate a PDF, Edge just works. It’s no drawboard PDF, but it’s free and runs on Linux!

      • TeaEarlGrayHot@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        I’ve love both Firefox and Okular (KDE’s evince), and both “technically” support PDF inking, but the experience is just subpar to what Edge offers now for notetaking and reviewing articles. Xournal++ is the gold standard and fully supports my Surface Pen, whereas Edge does not recognize pressure or the eraser. However, I work with a lot of embedded files (Logseq), and the fact that Xournal++ cannot bundle a PDF in a single file and instead needs a reference, plus the fact that PDF is a universal file format, makes Edge the most enticing option for now

        • irationslippers@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 months ago

          Ahh I see, I hadn’t realised you meant note taking with a pen. Glad that it works for you. And thanks for ignoring my somewhat caveman-esque typo.

        • Nameso Ecila@jlai.lu
          1·
          10 months ago

          But badly. If you write some text and reopen the file later, you can’t edit the text you just wrote