i’ve been trying to get rid of non-foss garbage as much as possible but i haven’t found anything to replace the microsoft launcher yet, a few good candidates but they were all either underbaked or too unstable to use. Any suggestions?

  • @beerclueEnglish
    7•4 months ago

    I’ve never heard of Microsoft Launcher before… A lot of people seem to like Nova Launcher, I’ve used Lawnchair in the past, but nowadays I just don’t care anymore, I use the Pixel default. I try to use as little Google stuff as possible, but the launcher is hassle free.

    • (⬤ᴥ⬤)OPEnglish
      7•4 months ago

      im on oneplus and i hate default launcher. nova launcher does not seem to be open source

    • RustmilianEnglish
      1•4 months ago

      I’ve been using lawnchair for such a long time, but one gripe I have is that it seems to be in a perpetual state of “Pre-release” with large gaps between releases.

        • RustmilianEnglish
          1•4 months ago

          It’s just that they seem to treat pre-release like they’re stable while never actually having a stable release. It’s not really an issue persay, it’s just kinda annoying how they handle release cycles. Pre-releases are supposed to be for experimentation and for finding bugs, not to sit on for months upon years.

    • @ZangooseEnglish
      1•4 months ago

      I’ve been eyeing lawnchair to replace my nova setup for a while but neither aurora/play-store nor F-droid have the newest release, is there a repo/manager to download from that doesn’t involve manually going to the GitHub and installing it? Edit: lawnchair is one word

  • @PeggyLouBaldwinEnglish
    3•4 months ago

    I really wanted to like the ms launcher. very customizable, and frankly it is kind of awesome. but I didn’t stick with it. I was using oneui for years when I started shopping for launchers, and I landed on kiss.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•4 months ago

    I switched from Nova to Kvaesitso when I found out they were owned by a spyware corp. It takes a little getting used to as it does most things differently, but it’s actually good once you get past that.

    • @CheskazEnglish
      1•4 months ago

      I did the exact same!

    • Hellmo_luciferrari
      0•4 months ago

      I still use Nova, however, I use AFWall+ to deny internet access to it. As well, as give it as little permissions as necessary.

  • PrivateNoobEnglish
    1•4 months ago

    And here was I attempting to type “oh yeah there are a lot of great options to Microsoft’s Minecraft Launcher. Try out Prism Launcher.”