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[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 96 points 1 day ago (14 children)

The only thing Edge is good for is downloading literally any other browser…

[–] Ftumch@lemmy.today 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Better to use winget, though. That way you don't even need to bother with Edge's initial setup screens.

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Better to use apt-get though. That way you don't even need to bother with the dumpster fire that is Windows 11.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Better to build from source, that way you don't have to deal with the snap versions of the program

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 2 points 16 hours ago

Gentoo user: "Of course we build from source! (What are snaps?)"

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