For most basic users I recommend using Gnome desktop environment
2- Softwares
Browser --> Firefox π (It's recommended to tweaks and the settings and use custom user.js (Explanations about user.js))
Librewolf β€οΈ (For an out-of-the-box great experience)
Do not use default firefox version there are horrible, if you want to stay on firefox pls consider using Mull π
And maybe grayjay is a good option but I dont know exactly the app..
you can configure firefox to be hardened pretty easily? I get that mull is preconfigured but the advantage of more fingerprinting protection becomes moot the second you change a setting. (as many are liable to do)
I'm currently using firefox nightly which seems somewhat hardened, browsing histlry and cookies are cleared on closing and adblocking is enabled by default. No add ons tho
True, it is a bit wonky indeed when opening some chonky pdf files... I guess I just got familiar with the layout bc I was already accustomed with it on a jailbroken kindle.
Once you get the bells & whistles down, you can pretty much read anything cozily on any screen/orientation. Still, more of an e-reader app than a PDF viewer.
Anyway, thanks for the guide! Lots of apps I didn't know about and I'll be sure to try them all out :)
In this guide I propose Foss apps for a completely degoogled phone, so I will not recommend Gcam and Gboard, I privilege Libretube as it hide our IP from YouTube, and I do not recommend at all Xmanager because it just remove the ads and paywalls but not tweaks the privacy π for discord, I will not recommend to use the system of discord because of what's behind...
Mainly because it comes with trace/swipe type input. Is there anything else out there that's better and more up to date?
Probably not up to modifying the above to include libraries.
I was a long term Swype user prior to getting a pixel 7, which it can't be installed on due to it being 32bit. I've not found anything else FOSS or otherwise that comes close to being as good as Swype's trace predictions. Sadly Microsoft bought the company that made Swype so the odds are it's never going to see the light of day again. They have their shitty Swiftkey app instead.
I tried a lot of keyboards but didn't find anything that felt just right until I switched to Heliboard and I've been really happy with it. The only thing I miss is being able to add gifs but I won't be switching back.
Hummm, for Mull the problem is that it lacks some functionality, has not an advanced ad-blocking (even with ublock origin) and firefox-based so it's slower on Android, that's a fact..
But I've no doubt that Vanadium is really cool but is it possible to get it without grapheneos?
Vanadium is GrapheneOS only, it specifically doesn't reimplement things that GrapheneOS already does so might not be as secure on other devices anyway. They used to recommend Bromite too, that's now become Cromite which seems pretty good in my experience.
Not comparable. Briar is distributed & a battery drain even if it is private. Conversations is decentralized, but still uses servers. Conversations is a replacement/upgrade to Element.