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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 privsecfoss@feddit.dk to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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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[–] cyd@vlemmy.net 8 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Emacs. Still the best way to edit any kind of text in any context.

[–] chris@lem.cochrun.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Absolutely! I can't believe when I stumbled across it in 2020 that it was as old as it is. And folks think it's too old and decrepit to use, it's inanely powerful.

[–] WidowsFavoriteSon@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"inanely powerful" I'm dying

[–] chris@lem.cochrun.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Hmmm nah. I'm not editing. I'll stand by it.

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