

There are only so many browser engines out there, and Chromium being opensource means people are going to use it. Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, etc.? They’re all based on Chromium. There are many browsers based on Chromium. Chromium doesn’t have feature parity with Chrome, so it’s not quite the same version. If you don’t know, Microsoft Edge is based on Chromium – which is the opensource version of Chrome, more or less.

You’ll have another article in a couple of days, and it quite likely won’t have anything to do with Microsoft.

If you don’t want to install Microsoft Edge, just move on and don’t bother those of us who are curious about the browser. Yes, I’m well aware that many of you hate Microsoft with a passion. We might as well use GDebi while we’re at it. It just so happens that I’m sitting at a Linux Mint computer when I’m writing this. It’s really not that much of a change, it’s still using apt. We’ll be installing on Linux Mint, just to mix things up a bit. That’s right, it’s from Microsoft but has a Linux version – and a version packaged for pretty much everyone. That’s the browser made by Microsoft that even has a Linux version. Today, we’re going to learn how to install Microsoft Edge.
