@jaypatelani also, for giggles, there's an extremist anti-AI site that describes NetBSD's AI policy as permissive. I'll allow people to find their own way there.

I also use this one, with one line of fixed apps and one line that changes based on usage levels. I use the delta app icon pack as well to standardise the look a little. Search for everything else, supporting tags so that e.g. 3 different parking apps come up when I type parking

When I see other people paging left and right searching for their app from a disordered list, I'm really glad I switched

Will check that out, hell yeah, thank you

Its in their customization options. The built in wallpapers and shit are all AI.

Yeah honestly I agree. I’ve never found the point in UI customization unless it’s to make it more utilitarian than aesthetic focussed. If it’s already good there really isn’t a reason to go all in on customization.

Aio launcher has changed my world

Niagara or Pro Launcher. I accidentally paid for the latter before realizing Niagara does the trick just fine.

I switched to KISS launcher a while ago (years ago?)and I absolutely love it. It is search based but you can have tags for apps which allow you to have something akin to folders. If an app fits two tags then so be it, it will show up in all the tag folders, so organisation can be much cleaner. It is also blazingly fast and keeps things clean.

You have AI bullshit on Niagara? I looked around on mine and dont see it. I'll uninstall right away if I see it.

I think there are a few now... iirc victoria launcher is one of them.

The minimalist ones take a different approach, and are really great at encouraging less phone use: minimo launcher, fokus launcher, olauncher and its variants, etc. There's some theory around why grayscale and text are less addictive than colorful icon grids, widgets, and multiple pages, but I can't find it right now.

I'm currently on murine launcher because I have a tiny phone, but I use black and white icons with arcticons.

Kvaesito: minimal UI with many unique customizations/features.

Well you switch when you feel like something could be better, like for me, I personally got OCD so I dont like a grid of apps, hence I use those minimal launchers that don't have icons and just a search bar. I know evey app I have installed and delete any if I dont see a use for it in the near future, but that's just me.

Currently using fokus launcher

I like InkOS, minimalist, in an epaper kinda way. Just dont like the notification module but I disable it. And I use Snowbell as the font, love it.

I do it to disable things in the launcher that ships with my phone. In many versions of android you can't get rid of that dumb search bar wiget or that even worse experiences page if you swipe left from home. I don't ever use them, but they get in my way, it's my phone I want them gone.

As a side note I also dislike circle icons, but I dislike even more that they change the shape with every major release of android.

I wish Niagara was FOSS and actually let me costumize my home screen without AI bullshit. I just like my alphabetical list.

I agree with yoiu. People's obsession with customizing their UI to be JUST SO seems really weird to me, whether it's Linux or Android. I'm utilitarian at heart and for sure there are some UIs that work better for some things than others, but overall I find most of the discussion in this space motivated by control-freakery over practicailty, like people would rather spend time researching, installing and customizing their UI than actually doing anything with it.

And that's fine. People are allowed to have their hobbies, but I, like you, wondered what was wrong with me that I didn't care about it until I realized there is nothing wrong with me at all, it's just not something i have interest in.

Though I will admit I did get into that WIndows power user UI editor thing that let you snap windows to a predetermined grid for a little bit, but that's when I was spending a lot of time transferring information between 3 different apps....

For me is important what launcher (or any other app) doesn't have. No bloatware, no games, no ads nor trackers. And then number two - it should have enough features for simple use, after that it should look simple. Yagni launcher on F-droid.

If you prefer a minimalist experience, Victoria launcher is the more customizable app with KISS bwing more minimal, while MetroWin launcher provides a super customizable Windows-Phone-like experience

Thanks! That would seriously save a lot of time for my workflow

Lawnchair seems to be a better experience over stock, as it has a lot more customisation options. Though my experience with it is that it has rather slow updates and icon packs don't work saperate from the app drawer and home screen. It should, but it didn't work for me

Oh, you asked Claude. That settles it then 🙄

Best one ever! I spent so much time in it :)

@Imnebuddy Thanks for asking, and for sharing your beliefs. You were not previously blocked; you're not blocked now.

As @halm@leminal.space said, it's because of their firm stance regarding LLM-generated.