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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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

i3wm

It's now more than a decade old and considered feature-complete 2 years back. But the basic usage is still the same since its initial launch. No matter how many versions of Windows or Gnome or KDE come and go, I use i3 in the same as I did when it launched. I don't need "new" features because the existing features are more than enough.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I fell completely in love by the look and practicality of what i see and listen about i3wm. It all started when exploring unixporn on reddit.

It's one of the things that make me sad for not being linux-savvy and even if I was I couldn't use it for my daily driver because my company/team work is based on the whole Microsoft Office ecosystem.

So I just contemplate the minimalist beauty of it.

[–] Arnaldur 1 points 2 years ago

I'm sorry my guy. i3 is very nice, never going back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

This. After the initial learning for i3wm I never looked back.

And I dread the times where I have to use something else (work environment...)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

sway is the wayland based modern alternative that I use (and prefer). It does not do anything flashy and most i3 config options work just the same.