On top of have more built-in privacy features, Edge is both faster and more stable than Chrome. For me, Chrome has almost always been very slow and unstable, while other Chromium based browsers like Edge, Brave, and Opera have never given me performance and stability issues. It’s actually kind of bizarre to me that most benchmark tests that I’ve seen online say that Chrome is the fastest when I’ve only every seen the exact opposite.
Also, the dev team that works on Edge is not actually directly associated with Microsoft. This is the reason why Edge isn’t exclusive to Windows. The only reason people don’t give it a chance is because they, like you, just automatically assume it’s just a reskinned IE.
Edit: Can whoever it was that gave me a downvote explain why? I’ve made similar comments on Reddit that also get downvotes and I’ve never understood why. Like, I’m sorry that Chrome works perfectly fine for you but runs like shit for me, I guess.
It seems like I can’t even use it anyways, lol. I’m using Linux Mint and the software required to build it is outdated.