I’m still largely getting small things back together from my previous installation of Arch Linux. That includes how I had Thunderbird set up with all of my email accounts.
However, I decided on a whim, instead of merely typing in sudo pacman -S thunderbird and calling it a day, I decided to search for anything related to Thunderbird in both pacman and the AUR with one simple command:
yay -Ss thunderbirdThat’s when I saw a result in the AUR for Betterbird (or specifically betterbird-bin), a self-purported “Thunderbird on steroids.”
Thunderbird on steroids, they say? Color me intrigued.
But what exactly did they mean by “on steroids”? What kind of improvements are we talking here? Upon digging around on the website, I found the following table of features comparing it to vanilla Thunderbird as of now.
Upon seeing this list, I decided to throw caution to the wind last night and give it an install.
Out of the box, it largely felt a whole lot like Thunderbird, but with a few minor changes in the first time account setup. It seemed a little smoother to set up a few email addresses on my first try.
However, since I’ve only yet to scratch the surface in terms of feature use and differences, I think I’ll need to give the app a bit more use. I didn’t even get to finish setting up my accounts on it just yet (it was getting a little late), but I’ll be doing that soon when I have more time.
I’ll follow up on this sometime in the future regarding my opinion and how it compared to my experience using Thunderbird for the past two years.
Sudo Science 