Re:Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try
by iamaelephant on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @04:25PM
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Lots of people invest in open source without supporting or investing in Linux. There's a whole universe of open source.
Re:Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try
by cameronbrown on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @05:31PM
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That's true, but Microsoft is supposedly making a push into Linux and by leaving it out you're cutting off a huge chunk of OSS enthusiasts.
Re:Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try
by zamadatix on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:01PM
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They don't seem to be expecting a Linux release soon https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c094uf/hi_reddit_were...
Chrome/Chromium on Linux isn't even all that well supported sadly enough.
Re:Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try
by jhasse on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:29PM
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> Chrome/Chromium on Linux isn't even all that well supported sadly enough.
What makes you think that? I'm using Chromium as my daily driver and it even comes with hardware video acceleration (chromium-vaapi package from Fedora + RPMFusion). In my experience Linusmx support is a lot better than Firefox'.
Re:Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try
by zamadatix on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:54PM
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Chromium-vaapi probably works well enough for most users but that doesn't mean it's officially supported, there's a reason it's a separate package instead of in the mainline build (i.e. it's been up to merge multiple times and declined each). Even then >60 FPS display and HDR do not function on Linux (though that doesn't affect as many as the decoding/GPU acceleration issues).
It is definitely better than Firefox on Linux but that doesn't make it well supported.
Maybe they have a Linux or FreeBSD version in the works. From what I'm seeing right now, the new Microsoft supports open source, so long as you're on a proprietary platform. Should I be surprised?