Abstract:
Microsoft recently updated the support documentation for the Edge browser to further clarify the range of officially supported Linux distributions. In May 2024, Microsoft updated the system requirements for Edge and announced that it would no longer support processors lacking the SSE3 instruction set. The timing of this adjustment is roughly the same as Windows 11 requiring version 24H2 to support the SSE4.2 and PopCnt instruction sets.
Two years later, Microsoft once again updated the Edge support instructions and officially listed the officially tested and verified Linux distributions suitable for the Chromium version of Edge. In fact, Microsoft has previously supported running Edge on Linux, and its documentation stated at the time that "Microsoft Edge supports Linux." However, Microsoft has not further clarified which distributions are officially supported until now.
Microsoft says Microsoft Edge is supported on the following 64-bit Linux distributions: Ubuntu 18.04 and above, Debian 10 and above, openSUSE 15.5 and above, and Fedora Linux 39 and above.
Microsoft also pointed out that other Linux distributions may also be able to run Microsoft Edge, but they are not officially supported and users may encounter problems during use.
Interestingly, Microsoft's biggest competitor, Google, has maintained a clear support list for Chrome Linux distributions as early as August 2019, which has been seven years since. Although this list has been updated many times since then, this gap still shows that Google is clearly ahead of Microsoft in maintaining relevant technical documentation. This type of information is often important to users who want to understand browser support and system requirements.
In terms of Google Chrome and Linux, Google also recently announced support for Chrome running on ARM64 Linux systems. Then at the end of August 2026, Google confirmed that it was testing the Flatpak packaging method.
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