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

A good DM need to strike a balance between configurability and ergonomy/ease of use.

As a novice user I loved to tweak the many configuration options, but it's time consuming and often lead to something worse than the default, leading to further tweaking.

Now I appreciate good defaults because that means there's few settings that needs tweaking.

Some DMs like early Gnome 3 releases went a bit too far removing configuration options, and have been slowly adding them back over several years.

[–] alongwaysgone@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's also what creates a ton of bugs and problems, both for users and developers. People hate on Gnome for being very standard without a lot of config options, but it makes a 'standard' Gnome desktop possible in a way that just doesn't exist for KDE.