privsecfoss@feddit.dk to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org · edit-21 year agoIn 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?message-squaremessage-square124fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up118arrow-down1message-squareIn 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?privsecfoss@feddit.dk to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org · edit-21 year agomessage-square124fedilinkfile-text
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(?)
minus-squareknowncarbage@lemmy.fmhy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIn light of recent IBM/RH activity those keeping the old ways, and user choice, alive are more important than ever. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:NeddySeagoon/YeOldeGentoo_2021_Edition Alsa may be a bit awkward but the other stuff is just more chaos on top of it, it’s not an alternative. I try wayland once a year or so, maybe one year I will manage more than a few hours or days. lvm/luks/ext4 is still better than btrfs which still hasn’t gotten round to addressing encryption, big hopes for bcachefs.
In light of recent IBM/RH activity those keeping the old ways, and user choice, alive are more important than ever.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:NeddySeagoon/YeOldeGentoo_2021_Edition
Alsa may be a bit awkward but the other stuff is just more chaos on top of it, it’s not an alternative.
I try wayland once a year or so, maybe one year I will manage more than a few hours or days.
lvm/luks/ext4 is still better than btrfs which still hasn’t gotten round to addressing encryption, big hopes for bcachefs.