Microsoft to release Edge for Linux in 2020

Grouter said:
But, .... but....Why???
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The tables have turned; Linux *was* the virus, now Edge has become the same ;-)

I can't see this having a target audience of more than a few 100 people - probably will only be used by a few devs to check browser comparability for their webapps.
 
OCP said:
The tables have turned; Linux *was* the virus, now Edge has become the same ;-)

I can't see this having a target audience of more than a few 100 people - probably will only be used by a few devs to check browser comparability for their webapps.
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Just use chromium... Edge can get piped, it doesn't belong anywhere near a linux distro.
 
ArtyLoop said:
Ah look... so now M$ crap on Linux... not interested...
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VS Code is also available on Linux, which many.people are happy with.
To be honest I might give Edge a try on Linux. Chromium and FF looks weird to me in comparison to Chrome and FF on Windows.
 
You'll end up eating your hat. Chredge (Chromium-based Edge) is nothing like the previous Msft browsers. It's fast, slick, compatible, stable, clean. Been using the Win version for months in Dev and Beta. Love it so far. Do yourself a favour and install the beta on Win. Even MS-haters will be pleasantly surprised.
 
Arthur said:
You'll end up eating your hat. Chredge (Chromium-based Edge) is nothing like the previous Msft browsers. It's fast, slick, compatible, stable, clean. Been using the Win version for months in Dev and Beta. Love it so far. Do yourself a favour and install the beta on Win. Even MS-haters will be pleasantly surprised.
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Arthur, as much as I would love to think that edge is somehow different from its forefathers, it is a chromium binary, tweaked by the engineers at m$ to track your online activities and get you into the Microsoft ecosystem of products. Your data is then used to further augment your digital footprint, and suggest product or services that Microsoft can benefit from.

Don't believe me? Have you seen the windows 10 "Start Menu"? Have you considered that Cortana knows about Every file on your machine, every keystroke and every word you say close to your pc.

Yes privacy is pretty much dead, but do you really want to rub salt into it too?

Always bank on linux, the developers at banks, do.
 
|tera| said:
VS Code is also available on Linux, which many.people are happy with.
To be honest I might give Edge a try on Linux. Chromium and FF looks weird to me in comparison to Chrome and FF on Windows.
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May I suggest a markup editor like Sublime Text, or a full blown IDE like one of the Jetbrains Suite of products.

I opted for Webstorm and it really is just a better dev experience, IMHO.

And yes, it costs money, but I figure a good mechanic, engineer, mathematician or plumber, buys the best tools they can afford, when they can.
 
John_Phoenix said:
May I suggest a markup editor like Sublime Text, or a full blown IDE like one of the Jetbrains Suite of products.

I opted for Webstorm and it really is just a better dev experience, IMHO.

And yes, it costs money, but I figure a good mechanic, engineer, mathematician or plumber, buys the best tools they can afford, when they can.
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Thanks. I'm not a developer though. I have however installed the Ruby Jetbrains IDE on my Linux VM. It seemed pretty solid.
I suck at learning' to code. I'm not a parrot learner. I have a lot of interest to learn Ruby though :)
 
John_Phoenix said:
May I suggest a markup editor like Sublime Text, or a full blown IDE like one of the Jetbrains Suite of products.

I opted for Webstorm and it really is just a better dev experience, IMHO.

And yes, it costs money, but I figure a good mechanic, engineer, mathematician or plumber, buys the best tools they can afford, when they can.
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I'd say Vim is the best tool for quick remote edit for a one/couple line change, VS Code is good for anything a step up from that, and utterly owns with integrations such as git, jira, (and I think azure devops, haven't really played around with it), and the docker remoting is also awesome. For PHP, only reason to move to Jetbrains is if you're dealing with objects, their intellisense is just miles ahead with the parameter and type hinting:
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Issue to vote on here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16221

I prefer Goland over VS Code's Go with add-ons, but it's a close thing, and the database integration is also pretty good across the suite (from IntelliJ to DataGrip (which is their IDE for SQL)).
 
Johnatan56 said:
I'd say Vim is the best tool for quick remote edit for a one/couple line change, VS Code is good for anything a step up from that, and utterly owns with integrations such as git, jira, (and I think azure devops, haven't really played around with it), and the docker remoting is also awesome. For PHP, only reason to move to Jetbrains is if you're dealing with objects, their intellisense is just miles ahead with the parameter and type hinting:
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Issue to vote on here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16221

I prefer Goland over VS Code's Go with add-ons, but it's a close thing, and the database integration is also pretty good across the suite (from IntelliJ to DataGrip (which is their IDE for SQL)).
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Jetbrain's entire product offering is awesome.
 
"Develop on the platform on which you deploy"

I see a growing number of Devs using a *nix based OS as their daily driver. Testing for windows can only be done on a windows machine with edge installed these days.

Less people are writing code with Edge in mind, hence ChrEdge exists.
 
CT_Biker said:
"Develop on the platform on which you deploy"

I see a growing number of Devs using a *nix based OS as their daily driver. Testing for windows can only be done on a windows machine with edge installed these days.

Less people are writing code with Edge in mind, hence ChrEdge exists.
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Just use docker.
 
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