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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] 0 points 2 years ago

Even as a techie myself I found making Emacs just as featureful as VSCode impossible. The debugging you can do in VSCode is unparalleled and using a cli tool is not as easy or quick as using the VSCode debugger. The editing itself is amazing (better than VSCode) but the learning curve is not worth it when I can't just do everything in emacs.