Re:Is it futile to un-Google?
by drdaeman on Saturday September 12, 2015 @11:30AM
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<rant sorry="yes">
The problem is... it sucks. I'm doing this and - honestly - it's not very pleasant experience.
The dilemma is - either sell your soul to Google (Apple, Microsoft, whoever else) and surrender to their will for a glimpse of their proprietary innovations, or have to deal with basic (and somewhat ancient) technologies without much of support. Unless you hire a sysadmin to maintain that for you.
The thing is, popular services add some value, like smart email processing, reasonably-well maintained spam filtering, tagging emails (IMAP doesn't have this!) etc etc. It's all theoretically doable in DIY setups, of course, but entry barriers (time, knowledge) are huge, and in practice one'll likely to end up with only basic functionality that'd they'll end up eventually abandoning due to maintenance being a PITA.
The problem is... it sucks. I'm doing this and - honestly - it's not very pleasant experience.
The dilemma is - either sell your soul to Google (Apple, Microsoft, whoever else) and surrender to their will for a glimpse of their proprietary innovations, or have to deal with basic (and somewhat ancient) technologies without much of support. Unless you hire a sysadmin to maintain that for you.
The thing is, popular services add some value, like smart email processing, reasonably-well maintained spam filtering, tagging emails (IMAP doesn't have this!) etc etc. It's all theoretically doable in DIY setups, of course, but entry barriers (time, knowledge) are huge, and in practice one'll likely to end up with only basic functionality that'd they'll end up eventually abandoning due to maintenance being a PITA.
</rant>