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. 😂

      • NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social
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        9 months ago

        No, I get not having a choice. But he specifically used the word “hope” to describe his desire to have Office available for Linux.

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          9 months ago

          Would I rather use outlook on a work linux machine, or Thunderbird on a work windows machine? The former. Every. Single. Time. MS Office suite availability on Linux would make it easier to do my job, potentially

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          9 months ago

          I hope that Office will be available on Linux in addition to Adobe Acrobat. LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, etc. aren’t good enough for documents that use advanced Office features. Same thing applies to Acrobat.

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      9 months ago

      Well, it’s for work stuff, so I don’t have a lot of choice.

      Several years ago some higher-ups chose Microsoft to provide all services. Exchange, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, etc.

      I can use LibreOffice or whatever for documents, but everything else is Microsoft.

      A native version of Outlook would be nice.

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      9 months ago

      Look, I have a love / hate relationship with Outlook but it is the best email client by far and the web version works great on Linux ( especially on Edge ).

      For me, Outlook is the difference between being able to use Linux for work and being forced to use Windows or MacOS.