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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)

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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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[–] DrWeevilJammer@lm.rdbt.no 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Netplan is 100% a solution that didn’t have a problem to begin with

This does not surprise me from a company that, well... * gestures distastefuly at snaps *

[–] alongwaysgone@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, if Ubuntu hadn't pushed snaps so damned hard, I'd probably still be running Ubuntu. I don't hate them. But... They're just obnoxious. Honestly, I wish Flatpaks and Appimages weren't pushed so hard on other distros too. But, such is life.