Free and Open Source Software

19345 readers

43 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

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]

228 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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(?)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 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] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've been thinking of switching to sway/hyprland but i3/x11 is not causing enough of a pain to justify the switch.

load more comments (2 replies)