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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the app page Bitwarden has the typical biometric symbols. And other FOSS alternatives also have biometric unlock. I use Keepass for example. On my desktop computer it is pretty easy to fill in passwords in my browser and on my phone it is very easy to open the database via biometrics. However, non of the clients actually have a nice and shiny GUI...

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

That's why I don't suggest Keepass to people vs Bitwarden, even though it's quote good, I know they're gunna be put off instantly by Keepass's ugly look.

Honestly though, all the mainstream password managers have pretty nasty looking interfaces IMO, so maybe it actually wouldn't matter lol.