I probably can’t get a new phone super soon, but it’s been quite frustrating how little support there is for iOS versions of open source software I’ve been slowing moving towards or investigating. I absolutely get why though!

I have the capability to understand complex topics but it takes me quite a few tries to really get it, so I’d like some help or recommendations of things that aren’t “just use linux”. (I am slowly dipping my toes by using WSL for things, though.) I am always searching for software, but I’ve never been active enough in communities to ask for personal recommendations and be warned of short comings. Obviously if you find recommendations, they want to look the best to you and hide their faults. I do try and research as much as possible, but like I said, I can get confused or not understand the drawbacks or full level of manual work/environments needed to operate at times.

Mostly I’m looking for day to day things that I can operate from my windows computer, but can also connect to my phone, assuming I get an android next. (Librem phones looks cool, but switching carrier providers is not feasible for me at the moment.) The boring things, like calendar, email, notes (I do use obsidian already). But if you’d like to gush about your daily drivers, I’m all ears!

  • MagusbearEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’d love to know this too if someone has any good suggestions.

    I recently switched over from Outlook (which I found extremely annoying) to eM Client (not open-source unfortunately but free for 2 inboxes) which I like leagues better than Outlook. The only real open-source Outlook alternative (I know of) would be Thunderbird, if you haven’t found it already. Haven’t used it in a long while though. For Android I am using k9-Mail which is open-source but still pretty barebones. It’s from the same guys as Thunderbird, or rather k9 Mail was taken over by the Thunderbird guys. For my needs it’s perfectly fine but it can’t do anything besides mail.

    • NinaOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I do actually ise thunderbird but it’s layout and interface is…lacking. Or not so friendly. As well as no iphone support, so still using gmail on the phone. There are plugins to thunderbird but are unstable so I uninstalled them and just only use it for mail now.

      • MagusbearEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I had the same experience the last time I tried it unfortunately.

      • gnuhautEnglish
        21·
        2 years ago

        FairEmail is free software and I like it better than K9.

        • NinaOPEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I’ll have to keep that in mind. The UI looks perfectly serviceable too.

        • NinaOPEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I’ll keep that in mind!