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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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 (2 children)

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

though also controversially, I'll take systemD over sysVinit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My distaste for systemd has been replaced by my distaste for netplan.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 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

[–] [email protected] 1 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 *

[–] [email protected] 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.

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

Is lynx worth using? How does JavaScript work?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lynx doesn't support Javascript. Links ( http://links.twibright.com/ ) is marginally more usable, but still has no Javascript, and I wouldn't want it as a daily driver either. Text-mode browsers just can't handle Web 2.0 (although, to be honest, I'm not that fond of Web 2.0).