Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird vs. Kontact vs. Evolution

Basil Chupin said the following on 08/26/2011 02:14 AM:
On 26/08/11 15:35, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
Hi

I'm currently using both Kontact and Thunderbird, and to me, Kontact is far
superior over the latter. Clearer layout, easy setup, everything just does
what it's supposed to do.

Thunderbird crashes a lot in my experience.

Absolutely fascinating, I have been using Thunderbird since it was knee
high to a grasshopper, and have never used anything else, and it has
never crashed on me. I am now using Thunderbird #6 and it has not once
tarnished its image on this system (oS 11.4 with KDE 4.7.x).

I agree.
I've had problems with TB and FF, but they would be the same problems as under Windows: the plug-ins not being kept up to date by external developers or causing compatibility problems.

Decades ago I had conversion problems but now I use IMAP so my mail lives on a dedicated mail server, and old, low powered machine that runs fetchmail, procmail, spamassassin and dovecot. It doesn't matter whether I use TB, Kmail, Evolution or borrow a Windows machine and run Outlook. I'm insured against future changes and any mistakes I make when upgrading or changing my mail reader. I can swap mail readers, I can use more than one mail reader. IT DOESN'T MATTER.

Although I do have Lightening, I make ore use of GoogleCalendar simply because I have to deal with other people and the shared calendar is very useful. GoogleCalendar can also stack calendars :-)

I realise that using Windows tends to make one view things the way that Microsoft does it all, and one of the things about Linux is that it offers so many alternatives. its not just about TB vs K vs Evo or the PM suites, but about the ability to mix and match outside a package use other tools. Under Linux its so easy to set up a database and LDAP as your addressbook and all of a sudden you are not tied in to any one reader. Yes you _could_ do that with Windows but its so easy under Linux.

This isn't an "either/or" question. This isn't about how to slice the cake fairly. It's not even about making the cake bigger. Its somewhere out there between "How many cakes do you want" and a factory for producing cakes.

And that's before we start talking about the cloud ....

"There's more than one way to do it".

And yes, for many Windows users who are used to being spoon-fed, used to having their decisions made or them, used to a limited set of choices, this freedom is scary. You are now responsible for your decisions..

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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species-- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire-- has been ethically ambiguous.
--Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World)
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