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Comment by cglong | Hacker News Reader

As someone considering switching to Linux for work, why not use OWA always? It's a full PWA, so you can access your data offline, and it's flowing through Exchange anyway.

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I prefer all my email in emacs because it is a familiar extensible environment subject only to my changes and decisions.

"I have power here" versus "you have no power here".

Someday I should really look into emacs since it can be literally anything my workstation needs it to be lol vi VS emacs seems like comparing Notepad++ to BSD. They may have similar functions built in but can do very different jobs.

"A nice operating system with a mediocre text editor built in."

OWA is fine for quick emails, usually, but I like old fashioned stuff like being able to view my message headers. Also, I use Firefox instead of Chrome so I don't get the PWA benefits.

It's gonna suck when Microsoft finally kills connectivity or login support for the Teams for Linux Electron app lol

I know that was just one example, but I think you can view message headers in OWA by clicking the ellipsis on a message, then "View" > "View message details".

Also, my mom preferred Safari but kept Chrome around for installing and opening PWAs. I understand if there's a philosophical reason this won't work for you though :)

One reason is good extension support, for example for fast keyboard navigation and mail moving in TB...

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/nosta...

One reason is because OWA is really slow on not-great hardware...

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