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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)
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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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[-] flauschke@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 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.

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