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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Emacs vs. VS Code

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you meant vim or neovim--the one true vim.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Emacs and vim should band together against their common VS Code enemy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's called evil-mode

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