edge browser in Q4OS application center

seb3773 · 2026-05-25 13:48

I noticed that the Edge browser is available in the Q4OS application center, but on Trinity (and maybe Plasma too?), it uses the Flatpak version. I have nothing against Flatpak (I even think it’s probably the "future" for packaged apps with all dependencies on Linux, much better than the dreadful Snap...). However, when a "classic" alternative is available, I think it’s preferable to use it (lighter).
For Edge, this should suffice:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg
sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/microsoft.gpg > /dev/null
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/microsoft.gpg
echo 'deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-edge-stable.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install microsoft-edge-stable

What do you think?

q4osteam · 2026-05-25 14:41

We would think that Microsoft Apt repositories are unreliable, so we would not recommend using them in production systems for ordinary users. Such repositories may pull broken package dependencies.

seb3773 · 2026-05-25 19:43

q4osteam wrote:

Such repositories may pull broken package dependencies.

ho didn't know that...So it makes sense to have flatpak instead, understood and thanks for the tip !

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edge browser in Q4OS application center

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