German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice by PawgerZ on Friday April 05, 2024 @10:23AM (#39942723)

I used the default Mail Microsoft Store app for the past 2 years at work. The past 6 months, it's been telling me to move to Outlook desktop app. A couple weeks ago, it wouldn't allow me to use the Microsoft Store app anymore, so I installed the desktop version, tried to login, and got an error message that my account would only work on the webapp.

Set up Thunderbird on my work desktop that day, and haven't looked back. Wish I would have way sooner, to be honest.

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Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice by Semaphor on Saturday April 06, 2024 @12:57AM (#39950100)

You inspired me, decided to set up Thunderbird and give it a week or so to see how it feels ;)

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Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice by PawgerZ on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @04:55PM (#39984145)

Hope it goes well!

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Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice by Semaphor on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @10:32PM (#39997845)

Thanks, but I just switched back. Just far too bad performance (for my use case of ten-thousands of mails in subfolders), and as a bonus a spam filter that ignores actual spam, but marks real mails as spam consistently.

The interface is far nicer than outlook, but the performance is just too annoying for me.

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Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice by coffeeling on Sunday April 07, 2024 @03:04PM (#39962929)

Wino Mail is native and nice.

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Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice by PawgerZ on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @09:49AM (#39979413)

Oh, very cool. Thanks for sharing -- glad to know I have this option if I want to go back. Now that I have Thunderbird set up, I'll probably never use the UWP Mail and Calendar app or this Wino Mail app.

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