As of 2019, the Edge browser is based on the open source Chromium project. Microsoft recently updated its documentation for Edge-supported operating systems, providing a complete list of Linux distributions that should provide the best browsing experience. The list includes Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE and Fedora, but Chromebooks are still not officially supported.
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The Edge browser has technically been available on the open-source operating system for years, but Microsoft’s official compatibility list should be useful to enterprise organizations and other professional fields. The updated Edge documentation states that the browser is supported on the following 64-bit Linux distributions:
- Ubuntu 18.04 or higher;
- Debian 10 or higher;
- openSUSE 15.5 or higher;
- Fedora Linux 39 or higher.
Other Linux-based operating systems can run Edge without problems, but Microsoft doesn’t officially support them yet. The browser isn’t officially supported on Chromebooks either. The list of supported operating systems also includes some versions of Windows 10 (LTSC) released in 2015, macOS, and several fairly modern mobile platforms. This list is essentially the same as the Chrome compatibility list, only Google has released this information since at least August 2019, while Microsoft took 7 years to do so.
Edge now matches Linux support provided by the Chromium project, an open source framework that powers many proprietary browsers, including Chrome and Edge. In recent years, Microsoft’s browsers have stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8.x, and older Pentium 4 processors, which do not provide hardware support for SSE3 instructions.
Even though Edge is built on Chromium, it still offers some features unique to other Chromium-based browsers. Recently, these additional capabilities have been focused on generative artificial intelligence. Microsoft is continuing to expand the capabilities of its artificial intelligence assistant Copilot, and in fact, it can already browse the web on its own if the user allows it.
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