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In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? (feddit.dk)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by privsecfoss@feddit.dk to c/foss

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I'll start:

RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)

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[–] argv_minus_one 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Microsoft Outlook, from what I've seen of it, is horrible compared to Thunderbird. Why anyone would use the former is beyond me. You can't even easily see message headers, so how the hell are you supposed to know whether a message is legit?

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Outlook

hides email address => security issue; eases phishing (even beyond not showing whether it's ensured valid)
can't have an inbox filter that moves emails and gives you a normal notification of unread email
can't have an inbox filter that is both server side and gives a desktop notification
can't save your reply email next to the replied to email in the inbox - but can in the folders
can't handle specific column orders (was it category before date then not working? sth like that)

I switched / had to switch at work. It works. I got used to it for the most part. But I'd much prefer using Thunderbird.

Because I'm using both now in both I never intuitively navigate to the delete button. Because the layout is different between the two.