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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by 80386 on Saturday December 08, 2018 @02:31PM (#18637038)
>As for email clients, I do keep wondering how Thunderbird can be so slow, how its rendering system can be so shite.

I leave Thunderbird open in the background and come back to a notification that some component or other crashed. Happens all the time, no clue why. Email is common enough that I'd expect there to be a half-decent client for it, but I don't know of one...

(IRC is also common, at least among people who write code, but I don't know of a free client that isn't worse than running irssi in cygwin.)

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by subway on Saturday December 08, 2018 @02:44PM (#18637111)
Google killed the need for a decent mail client. The entire PIM space on Linux has gone through a major regression since 2012, when I shut down my XMPP/IMAP/SyncML/CalDAV/CardDAV services and started using google. It seems like a lot of folks jumped ship to web based tools about that time.
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