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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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[-] navDend0@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

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

though also controversially, I'll take systemD over sysVinit

[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 6 points 2 years ago

My distaste for systemd has been replaced by my distaste for netplan.

[-] HrBingR@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I quite like systemd and netplan. Though the latter I can live without.

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