cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/76492244

Degoogle setup part 3

Previous part: https://vger.to/lemmy.world/post/54095201

(Changelog at the bottom)

Universal prefernces:

1. Lightweight
2. FOSS
3. Resource-effeciency
4. No or human-checked vibecoding

Nice-to-have but non-garenteed features:

1. Eco-friendly (by using the money for environmental purposes DIRECTLY)
2. Decentralized
3. Complete independence from original service. Use frontend or client if possible
4. Self-hostable
5. Offline-capable
6. Not hosted on Github (eww Microslop product)
7. Hardware sustainability

Avoiding alternative software developers (or companies/cooperations):

• Proton
• Mullvad
• Tuta
• Mozzila
• Signal
• FUTO

De-Boogle

Boogle Search:

1. SearxNG
2. Marginalia
3. YaCy

Boogle Chrome:

1. FREE Browser (Obscure)
2. Librewolf
3. Tor Browser

Boogle Mail:

• Service provider - Custom domain, Thundermail
• Client:

1. FairEmail
2. TutaNota
3. Thunderbird

Boogle Maps:

• Modified PWA - Gmaps WV
• Map data - OpenStreetMaps
• Public transportation data - Transitious
• Navigation client - CoMaps

Boogle Gemini:

1. Duck.ai
2. Ollama

Boogle Play:

• Repo:

1. F-Droid
2. IzzyOnDroid
3. Obtainium

• Client - Aurora Store
• Client for repos:

1. Droid-ify
2. ObtainX

YouTube:

• Platform:

1. PeerTube
2. Odysee

• Frontend - Invidious
• Frontend instance:

1. materialio.us
2. ytchocolatemoo.com
3. Self-hosted

• Client:

1. FreeTube
2. PlasmaTube

Boogle messages:

2. Fossify Messager
3. NovaDial

Boogle My Files:

1. Fossify File Manager

VirusTotal

1. Veto
2. Hypatia

Android - GrapeheneOS

Android Auto - Phone stand for car

De-Microslop

Windows:

1. CachyOS
2. Linux Mint

Office (or "Microslop Copilot 365"):

1. MA Office
2. LibreOffice
3. OnlyOffice

De-Meta

Facebook and instagram:

• Platform - Mastodon
• Client for platform - Smither

WhatsApp - SimpleX Chat

De-ByteDance:

TikTok - Loops

CapCut:

1. LibreCuts
2. Kdenlive
3. Shotcut

Hypic (photo editor):

1. Pocket Paint
2. Pinta
3. Inkscape
4. GIMP

Gaming

• Minecraft:

1. Luanti + Mineclonia
2. Cubys

• Universe Sandbox - Cosmogon

• Space Engine - Celestia

• Territorial.io - OpenFront

• Tetris - Block Drop

• Wordle - Code Word

• Friday Night Funkin - Etterna

• Geoguessr - GeoGuessLite

General internet:

Domain name system:

1. Adguard DNS
2. NextDNS
3. Quad9

Network tunnels:

1. Manual Wireguard VPN tunnel
2. Manual OpenVPN tunnel
3. Tor Network

Proxy:

1. HTTPS Proxy
2. SOCKS5 Proxy
3. Orbot

(not really related for De-googling or opensource but mpreso for de-bloating) File types and codecs (wheneber possible):

.png/.JPEG:

1. .webp
2. jxl

.exc:

1. .ods

.mp4:

1. .webm
2. .VP9

.mp3:

1. .OPUS
2. .m4a

Other:

Reddit:

• Platform - Lemmy
• Platform instance - reddthat.com
• Platform client - Voyager
• Frontend - Redlib
• Frontend instance:

1. saferreddit.com
2. self-hosted

SearxNG search rssult sources:

1. DuckDuckGo
2. Brave
3. Qwant
4. StartPage
5. Ecosia
6. Mojeek
7. GOOD

Github:

• Repo:

1. Gitlab
2. Codeberg

• Frontend - Gothub (no chosen instance yet)
• Client - Octolab (Gitlab-only)

New additions:

1. Privacy Flip
2. Shizuku
3. Canta
4. EnforceDoze
5. SaverTuner
6. Wine
7. Virtual Box
8. Librefind
9. sustysubs.net
10. Yagni Launcher
11. LTE Cleaner
12. SquirrelDisk

Main sources of help:

1. YouTube videos and comments
2. Lemmy comments and posts
3. Reddit comments and posts
4. sustysubs.net
5. Librefind
6. Possibly PeerTube in the future

Useless reccomendations for me:

• Termux

On the sidelines of comsideration:

• WizeStream (NewPipe fork)
• Flow (YouTube client)
• Skylib (Bluesky frontend, unlikely to actaully use)
• YT-dlp

Could use reccomendations for:

• Linux file manager
• Linux non-cloud-based photo gallery
• Linux malware scanner
• 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?
• If you used SailfishOS, PostMarketOS (or NuraOS) alongside GrapheneOS in your lufe, how's the experience?
• Any alternatives I missed?
• Any other software categories I missed?
• Any other new additions that I missed?

Changelog (NOT TOO IMPORTANT):

(Somewhat) Important changes

• Added "No or human-checked vibecoding" to Universal preferences
• Added "Not hosted on Github" and "Hardware sustainability" to "Nice-to-have but non garanteed features"
• Added note to "Eco-friendly" (Nice-to-have but non-garanteed featueres)
• Added "Signal" to "Avoiding alternative software developers"
• Replaced "Posteo" with "TutaNota" in Email clients
• Added "Public transportation data" with "Transitious" as the service
• Added "Odysee" as a new altermative platform to YouTube
• Replaced "Nobara" with "Linux Mint" as an alternative to Windows
• Added "Shotcut" as an alternative to CapCut
• Replaced "Galaxy Engine" with "Cosmogon" as an alternative to Universe Sandbox
• Added "Geoguessr" with "GeoguessLite" as the alternative
• Added "reddthat.com" as Lemmy instance
• Added "Voyager" as Lemmy client
• Added "SearxNG search results sources" with DuckDuckGo, Brave, Startpage, Qwant, Ecosia, Mojeek and GOOD
• Added "Octolab" as Gitlab client
• Added "Squirreldisk" as a new addition
• Added "Main sources of help" with YouTube, Lemmy, Reddit, sustysubs.net, Librefind, and PeerTube
• Added "YT-dlp" on the sidelines of consideration
• Added "Linux malware scanner" to "Could use reccomendations for
• Asked about the SailfishOS and PostmarketOS (or NuraOS) experience

Changes you might notbcare about:

• Added changelog
• Added link to the previous part
• Added thumnail
• Updated format