Ditch this shit yesterday.
The company that owns it now blows chunks. I'm using Lawnchair now and it was a bit of a transition but after a few days I got it set up just how I wanted.
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While he says that Instabridge is in a “difficult position,” he thinks that open sourcing Nova “has to be a component” of helping rebuild trust with the community:
Yea, I bet it is a difficult situation, wanting to add advertisements and trackers to an app you didn't develop while trying to skirt out of a public commitment for going open source, an act that would allow people to completely undo your efforts for ads and trackers. I can see why they don't want to open source it.
For context that is paraquoting Barry(the ex-dev that left) talking about instabridge and open sourcing it. the full quote is in the post.
I am using Kvaesitso which is great, but not Nova.
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Moved to Octopi launcher. It's nice.
Looking at Dragon Launcher too which is really cool. However, I need more time to set it all up.
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Been using Olauncher from fdroid since I switched to grapheneOS a few years ago:
https://f-droid.org/packages/app.olauncher
Zero complaints so far, pretty minimalist launcher.
Paid users?
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Can't believe Smart Launcher hasn't been mentioned yet! It's as close to one to one as it gets for a launcher to Nova!
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I moved to Niagara launcher about a year ago when the Nova purchase was about to go through. Have been really enjoying it.
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This is my new favorite launcher.
indistract minimalist launcher
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.indistractablelauncher.android
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Nova launchers users are ‘evaluating’ other launchers, and some users already switched.
Smart launcher Lawn chair
Are both good alternatives.
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