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Microsoft Edge, anyone? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cujo@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

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. 😂

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just wait until Microsoft releases a .deb of Windows Terminal.

[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Powershell is already available for Linux

[–] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well I guess if you need scripts to work in a mixed Windows/Linux environment that makes sense. On the other hand the few times I have to touch powershell it's so verbose and cryptic at the same time, so I think I'll stick with bash personally.

[–] 601error@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

As a PowerShell expert, I can confirm it is suuuper verbose and yet cryptic. It’s a real shell, much better than it’s predecessor, but still with plenty of bad decisions in its design and implementation. My theory is that they only watched a 1-hour presentation on Bash before spending a weekend designing PowerShell.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

It also plays really well with .NET if you are using that.

In many ways, Linux is the premiere .NET environment now.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Shell != Terminal