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Thunderbird's Calendar supports local, off-line calendars and tasks.
It's the best FOSS calendar I have used, even if it has its rough edges.
+1, Thunderbird's Calendar is the best OSS calendar application out there.
As far as I’m aware, it’s the only one out there that’s still a native client rather than a web app. It was hard enough trying to find a simple CalDav-only oss calendar server. I ended up using Baikal when there are half a dozen or so projects that were supposed to be the next iteration of it. Baikal outlived all of them. But I have to open the database directly at it’s port and sign in if I want to share a calendar between users.
Like, I appreciate Nextcloud, I’ve played around with it a bit and it seems like a great tool. But it’s also kind of an unwieldy swiss army knife of tools. I don’t need or want what is essentially a local network drive accessible outside the house. But it feels like it’s one of the only other good foss calendar servers out there. It feels like contributions to projects like Thunderbird & Baikal have dried up in favour of things like Nextcloud, and I feel like that’s a massive shame.
In general, I agree with the sentiment - at the same time, I think the idea behind Nextcloud is to cover more use-cases at once and serve as some kind of a "extensible platform"... and honestly, it does that quite well
Oh, I definitely agree, it’s a really good tool if you need that. But on trying to find and setup a FOSS calendar server, I repeatedly saw the sentiment of “why not install Nextcloud?”. I just wanted a calendar server that would sync with native apps, I didn’t need a web interface for it. I didn’t want to dedicate the resources either. Baikal needs 1gb of RAM and 1 vCPU. Nextcloud needs 4-8x that, at a minimum.
Honestly, I am pretty surprised that Baikal requires that much :D It should literally take no more than 100 MB of memory and way less CPU, IMO - or did you mean the size of a VM?
The size of the VM itself. I run a MariaDB container on the same VM for Obsidian syncing. They both chug along happily. I can’t assign it less than a single vCPU, but that is still just one thread on a two thread core. I could assign it less than 1GB of RAM, but the box has 128GB so why bother?
I used thunderbird as a mail client for a while but eventually just gave up and switched to the web UIs, it was simpler and good enough. I didn't know the calendar was that good, I should give it a try, thanks. Are there any specific features or use cases that make it stand above other (mail) calendars?