Benchmarking

The time is here! A stable version of Microsoft’s Edge web browser is now available for Linux. There have been beta and developer versions for some time, but the stable release was recently spotted in the yum repository hosted by Microsoft. If you want to try it out, you can download the rpm package in Fedora or use the command line to upgrade to Ubuntu. The stable version is not yet an option on the official page, but there are other ways to get the package. ...

We will check out some of the more popular Linux packaging formats and run some benchmarks to see if there are any clear winners between them. But before we get into the actual benchmarking, we must first discuss these different packaging formats and some of their key differences. We’re going to focus on Flatpaks, Snaps, and AppImages. All of these have the benefit of being independent of your Linux distribution, meaning that you can run all of these packaging formats no matter what version or distribution of Linux we’re running. This differs from something like APT, Pacman, DNF, or whatever it may be, because those are distribution-specific package management systems. ...