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On that topic, is there an alternative for a mail client + calendar for Win 11 that doesn’t look and feel like a Windows 95 exe named Thunderbird?
Thunderbird did get a UI overhaul semi-recently so it might offer what you're after now.
I also liked eM Client which has a free version.
I must’ve missed this by a thread when I gave Thunderbird another shot six months ago. Cool!
This looks like Win 95 to you?
Of course, this is what I see /s
Real.
To be fair, that is the concept art, the real thing looks more like this:
Certainly not Windows 95, but not as good as the concept art. Yet people still complain A LOT, because it breaks theor two decade old CSS and "looks like a electron app" (whatever that means...).
If someone tells me "it looks like an electron app" I assume they mean "doesn't have a native window bar"
Actually this the first time I noticed Thunderbird don't have a native window bar LOL.
Like who looks at window bar all day?!
There’s surprisingly few standalone email clients for normal people on desktop platforms as far as I know.
Reading through their mail merge tutorial, their method looks insanely risky: putting all addresses in "to" and rembering to click another button.
eM Client is the absolute best I've ever used.
I’ve been using Thunderbird and loving it. They’re developing a mobile app now as well!