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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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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (5 children)

You bring up a good point with utilities like Bitwarden and Proton Mail; things that look nice and have good functionality attract the average user much more easily.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    Last I checked, Bitwarden doesn't have any way to hit a hotkey and insert login credentials in the current app? It also can't be unlocked with biometrics?

    Those aren't "nice" features for people in the Apple ecosystem, they're baseline features that every password manager needs to have. I don't just type passwords into a browser, so a browser extension alone isn't enough. And I'm not typing my umpteen character long password fifty times a day, there needs to be biometrics.

    I will always choose open source software over closed source software - but not if it means choosing mediocre software over good software.

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

    At least with android 13, you can choose the bitwarden app as your default autofill option, and it will fill login info in apps/websites/etc. That being said, I've noticed sometimes it won't pop up immediately, but it's by far the minority of situations where it does that.

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

    On the app page Bitwarden has the typical biometric symbols. And other FOSS alternatives also have biometric unlock. I use Keepass for example. On my desktop computer it is pretty easy to fill in passwords in my browser and on my phone it is very easy to open the database via biometrics. However, non of the clients actually have a nice and shiny GUI...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    That's why I don't suggest Keepass to people vs Bitwarden, even though it's quote good, I know they're gunna be put off instantly by Keepass's ugly look.

    Honestly though, all the mainstream password managers have pretty nasty looking interfaces IMO, so maybe it actually wouldn't matter lol.

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