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Along with seemingly everyone else, I had a quick look at my options to migrate away from Apple over the last few days. First thing I looked for was a decent ma

Along with seemingly everyone else, I had a quick look at my options to migrate away from Apple over the last few days. First thing I looked for was a decent mail app, was immediately put off the whole idea, exactly as you describe.

pmlnr 10y ago
> a decent mail app This is probably the most painful thing on desktop at the moment, because no one gives a s* to desktop mail apps these days. I recently switched back to evolution from Thunderbird, but where one if great, the other falls short ( in this case, GPG with Evolution is _painful_ ). Geary is... well, not mature, Claws and Sylpheed are a bit too oldschool and mutt is ... well, mutt. I'd love to see something like Rainloop[1] as a real desktop app. Mailpile[2] is a nice idea, but is nowhere even close to the usability of Rainloop. [1]: http://www.rainloop.net/ http://www.rainloop.net/ [2]: https://www.mailpile.is/ https://www.mailpile.is/
- matzipan 10y ago
  Check my comment above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854312)
etatoby 10y ago
I recently switched to Mint Cinnamon and I'm completely satisfied. There is not one thing I miss from Mac OS X and many where GNU/Linux is much better. As for mail, Thunderbird is not so bad.
- hood_syntax 10y ago
  Mint is much more polished than Elementary, I've never had a problem in my (limited) experience with it.
  - pmlnr 10y ago
    I did, very recently, with Mint 18, and never before. ( random lockups with Cinnamon, app crashes, etc. ) I'm still on the very same install, just switched to xfwm4 and tint2, and I'm quite happy.
- santaclaus 10y ago
  Mint is better than most Linux desktops, but it still looks like a poor Windows XP skin from 9 years ago...
matzipan 10y ago
Well Geary (and the elementary fork Pantheon Mail) are quite good for basic use. There are still a few bugs and their codebases are quite hell to work with (see [1] for my review of them). This document motivates my little side project, but, lately, it hasn't seen much direct attention as I've been working on some stuff upstream, in elementary and Evolution, for this project. [1] https://github.com/matzipan/envoyer/blob/master/README.md#review-of-other-mail-clients https://github.com/matzipan/envoyer/blob/master/README.md#re...

pmlnr 10y ago

> a decent mail app This is probably the most painful thing on desktop at the moment, because no one gives a s* to desktop mail apps these days. I recently switched back to evolution from Thunderbird, but where one if great, the other falls short ( in this case, GPG with Evolution is _painful_ ). Geary is... well, not mature, Claws and Sylpheed are a bit too oldschool and mutt is ... well, mutt. I'd love to see something like Rainloop[1] as a real desktop app. Mailpile[2] is a nice idea, but is nowhere even close to the usability of Rainloop. [1]: http://www.rainloop.net/ http://www.rainloop.net/ [2]: https://www.mailpile.is/ https://www.mailpile.is/

matzipan 10y ago
Check my comment above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854312)

etatoby 10y ago

I recently switched to Mint Cinnamon and I'm completely satisfied. There is not one thing I miss from Mac OS X and many where GNU/Linux is much better. As for mail, Thunderbird is not so bad.

hood_syntax 10y ago
Mint is much more polished than Elementary, I've never had a problem in my (limited) experience with it.
- pmlnr 10y ago
  I did, very recently, with Mint 18, and never before. ( random lockups with Cinnamon, app crashes, etc. ) I'm still on the very same install, just switched to xfwm4 and tint2, and I'm quite happy.
santaclaus 10y ago
Mint is better than most Linux desktops, but it still looks like a poor Windows XP skin from 9 years ago...

matzipan 10y ago

Well Geary (and the elementary fork Pantheon Mail) are quite good for basic use. There are still a few bugs and their codebases are quite hell to work with (see [1] for my review of them). This document motivates my little side project, but, lately, it hasn't seen much direct attention as I've been working on some stuff upstream, in elementary and Evolution, for this project. [1] https://github.com/matzipan/envoyer/blob/master/README.md#review-of-other-mail-clients https://github.com/matzipan/envoyer/blob/master/README.md#re...