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You drastically overestimate the general software consumer.

Thunderbird is really only used by performance obsessed nerds, and that's largely in part because performance obsessed nerds all but prefer hideously outdated UI.

But for any normies, they're gonna load it up and feel their skin crawl, along with the overwhelming sense someone might turn the corner to their cubicle and begin shouting "NERD!"




In one of the previous threads someone suggested betterbird and I've been using it ever since[1].

It doesn't fix the age old default search output, but it works comparably well for my taste. It also doesn't fix the idle CPU usage unfortunately.

[1] https://www.betterbird.eu/#featuretable




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