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Well it's finally the year of the Linux Desktop.
I wonder what Stallman would have to say about that? We've come around full circle to GNU/NT.
I haven't had any problems with macOS stability lately. Has anyone else experienced what the author describes? Around me Windows 10 has crashed more than macOS. but Windows 10 is really stable too.
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Assuming you're an employee, this is a feature. Your old employer probably doesn't want you taking your email with you, and rightly so - and your new employer very likely doesn't want you bringing your old email with you, for exactly the same reason. So... there you go. What's the problem? I suggest embracing this rather than worrying about it.
It is about the configuration of Outlook, not about the email if I understood that correctly.
Another thought: when people complain about the state of Linux email clients, what is so good about the Windows alternatives? Office productivity suites, I get it. But email clients all suck. Mutt's mantra is so true, at least they're honest about sucking less. I believe Linux is a 100% of the time platform because the choice (again, user choice) to run minimal terminal apps means like less than average 50% memory ut…
Don't write off Outlook without a second thought. It's big with loads of features, yes - but that's what's good about it. If all you need to do is plain text email, sure, Mutt is fine. If you deal with a large amount of email, calendar appointments, tasks, contacts, etc, in a professional role, nothing beats Outlook. There's a reason it's so popular.
Disclaimer: I'm not a PM/executive who has to juggle meetings and communication all day, so maybe I just ask less of email.
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I pretty much run the same stack for email/editor/docs on every platform. For the most part Windows, OSX and Linux are interchangeable for me which is a nice place to be. I just find Linux gets in the way a lot less for my purposes.
Every platform has advantages and a slightly different mix of applications that make it suit some users more than others. I can certainly understand swapping between a Mac and Windows for iOS and Windows development or games and back to Linux for web/server stuff. But being stuck on a particular platform because of an email client would bother me.
I think it is great that this stuff is running on Windows but it bothers me that people feel they are trapped on Windows because of their email client. That seems so dated.
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The issue is, that Outlook sends crappy emails in the default setting. And since nobody changes those everybody is sending crappy emails. Also, we are talking about email. Maybe it is good for an address book, calendar, tasks, etc. pp. But as an email client it is awful, also because it is as complicated as mutt but actually less powerful. My biggest complained about Outlook is actually a bug in their HTML engine. Fr…
This is baffling. How could something as important as font rendering not be fixed?
I know options exist today but I would love to see native support and it's oh-so-close.
Would be great to be able to finally script things to copy stuff over to the Windows box such as LE certs.
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It is about the configuration of Outlook, not about the email if I understood that correctly.
Right - but why would you care? You get a PC, and it has Outlook, and it's set up to work with their system. Then you leave/they sack you. You get a new job. They give you a different PC. It has Outlook... and it's set up to work with their system. Rinse and repeat.
This is still really cool though.
Well it's finally the year of the Linux Desktop.
Actually, I feel like this is the one instance where saying "GNU" instead of Linux is completely accurate, since WSL is not even running the Linux kernel but GNU userland tools... I wonder what Stallman would have to say about that? We've come around full circle to GNU/NT.
a) don't want to provide nice tools to windows users because then they'll no longer have the need to switch to a libre system
b) do want to provide nice tools to windows users because then they'll get a taste of how liberating freedom is
obviously there is a balance there, and I think GNU/NT might be a bit too far into entrenching-the-user for his tastes, though I can't speak for him obviously.
It seems there is no political note on his site for the announcement of ubuntu-on-windows.