For me, it was perhaps simple-scan, a very simple and efficient GUI to scan documents. I used it with my Brother printer / scanner and it works like a charm. Especially since I do not scan stuff often, so a program with more complex UI would have the effect that I forget how to use it until the next time.
Microsoft Edge was a recent surprise. It’s surprising both that Microsoft would create it and that any Linux users would run it. Since its Chromium based, there should be no need for developers to test Edge separately.
A very unwelcome surprise, too.
I’m pretty neutral about the mere existence of software I’m not interested in using.
But you’re missing out on all the hate! I feel sorry for you. ;)
I think MS assumes no one will use it. But having Linux builds of some of their software enhances their “MS loves Linux” marketing.
Teams is another example.
MS no longer produces an official Teams binary for Linux. (Correct me if they’ve started doing so again)
I have to build it from the AUR.
i’m forced to use teams, though. not edge.
Fair – what I meant was more about the Teams binary kind of not being needed at all (you can use the web version without it). So having a Linux binary explicitly just seems a little weird, marketing aside.
The main reason for building it dedicated instead of as a browser tab is to easily identify it on my task bar as it’s own thing.
Oi, I am planning on using edge when I switch to linux xD
I opened Edge on a fresh install a couple days ago. The amount of things flashing and spinning and popping up trying to grab my attention actually gave me nausea.
And I don’t mean (just) ads, I mean even the starting page with all the news, weather, random popups telling me things i can do with Edge, the dark patterns as soon as I searched for Firefox in Bing, and so on.
The thought that there’s even a single human in the process of developing and maintaining that browser is incredible to me.
But well, I suppose some people do enjoy it. Just beware it won’t be as fast on Linux as it is in Windows since it isn’t as thoroughly integrated into the OS.
I honestly like it due to ehat it offerd and how it looks. And it’s kinda optimized. Once V3 rolls in thiugh, I am aiming at Floorp.
Just switching to new OS and new browser seems kinda meh.
I use Edge on my Ubuntu setup. Tried all the browsers that integrate with KeepassXC and Edge won. It’s the only browser that has a nice UI with tabs on a sidebar, decent performance, nice devtools and is not doing shady shit like Vivaldi.
What shady shit is Vivaldi doing? I’m out of the loop.
They add referral codes to your sessions on Amazon and a like. This way all your purchases are feeding their ref accounts.
It’s not that bad practice if they’d do it as opt-in. I never consented to this and only figured out once when I looked at networking tab.
You can also get Teams on Linux
That’s a little less surprising to me. Organizations are likely to pick competing communication software if Teams is not available to everyone. Web browsers are generally interoperable after Microsoft lost the war to popularize one that wasn’t.
Really? All I’ve seen is a Flatpak that’s really just a wrapped web view. Is there now a native version of Teams for Linux?
Hmm, seems that you might be right. I haven’t tried but remember that there were both rpm and dep packages, however it looks like after Teams 2.0 came, the native packages are no longer a thing.
Both the Windows and Linux ones are wrapped web views.
The native windows version of teams is also only a glorified web view.
That’s not been my experience. It may be using a web view under the hood, but the functionality is quite different. Additional features, breaking the video call out of the primary pane, etc. To suggest that they’re essentially the same is not accurate.
I see literally no difference between the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions except 2 shortcomings on Linux: