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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 3 years ago* by to c/foss@beehaw.org
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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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[–] 10 points 3 years ago (9 children)

vi, lynx, mutt, and of course X11 > wayland

though also controversially, I'll take systemD over sysVinit

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    My distaste for systemd has been replaced by my distaste for netplan.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I hadn't heard of it, so I looked it up, and…WTF? Systemd-networkd with extra steps? Systemd-networkd does not need extra steps!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Yeah. The worst part is that things it’s supposed to protect against like applying a bad config doesn’t work half the time. I’ve run the test command before and it just buggered the box until I made a drive.

    Oh yeah and they recently (at least witb Ubuntu) chnaged their default for DHCP from using a MAC address to a UUID for the dhcp identifier. Which is amazing if you use dhcp reservations because suddenly your box is just off on another IP.

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

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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 *

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Is lynx worth using? How does JavaScript work? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

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