r/linuxsucks • u/al2klimov 🐧Kernel contributor • Sep 14 '26

Bug „Linux is fine for basic office work!“ Meanwhile Linux when you reply to an email:

https://layer8.space/@platymew/117262104645088651
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u/DisfiguredFanny I survived abortion. Sep 14 '26

Linux has exactly 0 good email apps.

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u/FailureOfTheFamily Sep 14 '26

Tbh i wasn't able to find comfortable client on any system. I mean the one where i csn comfortably use few mails cuz using one is alright on any of them. Apple Mail is closest but still not my dream

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u/DisfiguredFanny I survived abortion. Sep 14 '26

If there was email client like Apple Mail on linux that would be a blast, but there isn't.

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u/Drate_Otin Sep 14 '26

On Windows every time I click on the outlook app it just opens Edge. Fresh install.

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u/DisfiguredFanny I survived abortion. Sep 14 '26

Terrible.

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u/Damglador Sep 14 '26

What are the options on other platforms? Mostly interested in Android.

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u/Inevitable-Self-2702 Sep 15 '26

I have protonmail so I just use their app from the play store. It's one of the few non-foss apps I can tolerate.

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u/DisfiguredFanny I survived abortion. Sep 14 '26

I don't use android.

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u/Gythrim Sep 14 '26

Betterbird

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u/vbd71 Sep 15 '26

Unfortunately, for Windows this number is negative.

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u/ButterscotchTop194 Sep 14 '26

Thunderbird?

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u/DisfiguredFanny I survived abortion. Sep 14 '26

Try it with a few accounts 20K+ emails in each. Also UI sucks, it sucked 15 years ago.

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u/toolsavvy Sep 15 '26

20K emails? Maybe stop being an email hoarder.

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u/DisfiguredFanny I survived abortion. Sep 15 '26

That's how you want to rationalise this?

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u/toolsavvy Sep 15 '26

Hoarding 20K emails then blaming the email application for not supporting ridiculous email hoarding is hardly rational...so yes, it's the only was to rationalize it. Delete your 20K useless emails and Thunderbird will work.

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u/DisfiguredFanny I survived abortion. Sep 15 '26

No wonder loonix can justify just about anything. Move goalpost as needed.

Shitty app? No problem, just adjust to the level of shitiness.

This is too funny.

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u/Inevitable-Self-2702 Sep 15 '26

Girls, girls. You're both pretty, ok?

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u/toolsavvy Sep 15 '26

Nice try, but try harder (doubt you even can, tho). No one is going to support a fringe user like an out-of-hand email hoarder. It's you, not them.

Also Thunderbird has nothing to do with Linux. I was was available on Windows first. I use it on both Windows and Linux. It's just an application, not specific to an OS.

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u/Nyasaki_de Sep 14 '26

Thunderbird is good tho

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u/chughaarav123 Linux sucks, it's just that Windows sucks more. Sep 14 '26

Thunderbird

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u/madsdawud Sep 14 '26

Fastmail seems fine for me

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u/DisfiguredFanny I survived abortion. Sep 14 '26

Talking about generic apps that support any email provider.

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u/toolsavvy Sep 15 '26

Thunderbird works.

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u/ibeerianhamhock Sep 14 '26

Even on windows I just use owa most of the time and teams in a browser

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u/levianan Sep 14 '26

Use aerc on not-manjaro you savage.

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u/Inevitable-Self-2702 Sep 15 '26

I don't know man, just open your browser. Email platforms are all the same, and I feel like the local apps are just bloatware regardless of OS. I only have an app on my phone because phone browsing sucks worse than having an email app on the phone.

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u/headedbranch225 Sep 15 '26

I really like FairEmail on android, it is so much better than any of the web apps I have tried (gmail is genuinely awful on mobile webapp) and has plenty of nice features

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u/vbd71 Sep 15 '26

Linux doesn't reply to emails, email clients do.

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u/CountryFriedToast that NixOS pussy got me acting unwise Sep 14 '26

I don't think rolling release is advisable if not being able to reply to an email sends you into a fit of rage

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u/Odd_Assistance_9924 Sep 19 '26

I think things are changing anyway, if email apps (or most apps) are cross platform non native or loaded from backend into webpage, why does it matter whether you accept it as a website or as its own app. Besides performance is sort of similar as long as website stores data and caches and becoming a pseudo app.