Universal prefernces:
- Lightweight
- FOSS
- Resource-effeciency
- Offline-capable
Nice-to-have but non-garenteed features:
- Eco-friendly
- Decentralized
- Complete independence from original service. Use frontend if possible
Avoiding alternative software developers (or companies/cooperations), only use their products as a last resort:
- Proton
- Mullvad
- Tuta
- Mozzila
- FUTO
De-Boogle
Boogle Search:
- SearxNG
- Marginalia
- YaCy
Boogle Chrome:
- FREE Browser
- Librewolf
- Tor Browser
Boogle Mail:
- Service provider - mailbox.org with a custom domain
- Client:
- FairEmail
- Posteo
- Thunderbird
Boogle Maps:
- Modified PWA - Gmaps WV
- Map data - OpenStreetMaps
- Client - CoMaps
Boogle Gemini:
- Duck.ai
- Ollama
Boogle Play:
- Repo:
- F-Droid
- IzzyOnDroid
- Obtainium
- Client - Aurora Store
- Client for repos:
- Droid-ify
- ObtainX
YouTube:
- Platform - PeerTube
- Frontend - Invidious
- Frontend instance - materialio.us, ytchocolatemoo.com, Self-hosted
- Client:
- FreeTube
- PlasmaTube
Boogle messages:
- Fossify Messager
- NovaDial
Boogle My Files:
- Fossify File Manager
VirusTotal
- Veto
- Hypatia
Android - GrapeheneOS
Android Auto - Phone stand for car
De-Microslop
Windows:
- CachyOS
- Nobara
Office (or "Microslop Copilot 365"):
- MA Office
- LibreOffice
- OnlyOffice
De-Meta
Facebook and instagram:
- Platform - Mastodon
- Client for platform - Smither
WhatsApp - SimpleX Chat
De-ByteDance:
TikTok - Loops
CapCut:
- LibreCuts
- Kdenlive
Hypic (photo editor):
- Pocket Paint
- Pinta
- Inkscape
- GIMP
Gaming
- Minecraft:
- Luanti
- Cubys
-
Universe Sandbox - Galaxy Engine
-
Space Engine - Celestia
-
Territorial.io - OpenFront
-
Tetris - Block Drop
-
Wordle - Code Word
-
Friday Night Funkin - Etterna
General internet:
Domain name system:
- Adguard DNS
- NextDNS
- Quad9
Virtual private network:
- Manual Wireguard VPN tunnel
- Manual OpenVPN tunnel
- Tor Network
Proxy:
- HTTPS Proxy
- SOCKS5 Proxy
- Tor Proxy
(not really related for De-googling or opensource but mpreso for de-bloating) File types and codecs (wheneber possible):
.png/.JPEG:
- .webp
- jxl
.exc:
- .ods
.mp4:
- .webm
- .VP9
.mp3:
- .OPUS
- .m4a
Other:
Reddit:
- Platform - Lemmy
- Frontend - Redlib
- Frontend instance - saferreddit.com, self-hosted
Github:
- Repo - Gitlab, Codeberg
- Frontend - Gothub (no chosen instance yet)
New additions:
- Privacy Flip
- Shizuku
- Canta
- EnforceDoze
- SaverTuner
- Wine
- Virtual Box
- Librefind
- sustysubs.net
- Yagni Launcher
- LTE Cleaner
Useless reccomendations for me:
- Termux
On the sidelijes of comsideration:
- WizeStream (NewPipe fork)
- Flow (YouTube client)
- Skylib (Bluesky client, unlikely to actaully use)
Could use reccomendations for:
- Linux file manager
- Linux non-cloud-based photo gallery
- Long-term Linux distro if I find my beginner-friendly distros a bit pale in the future
Remaining questions:
- If you tested or use QubesOS, how's the experience?
- Do you use a non-Linux-based FOSS operating system (like ReactOS)? If so, how's the experience?
- Any alternatives I missed?
- Any other software categories I missed?
- Any other new additions that I missed?