Universal prefernces:

  1. Lightweight
  2. FOSS
  3. Resource-effeciency
  4. Offline-capable

Nice-to-have but non-garenteed features:

  1. Eco-friendly
  2. Decentralized
  3. 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:

  1. SearxNG
  2. Marginalia
  3. YaCy

Boogle Chrome:

  1. FREE Browser
  2. Librewolf
  3. Tor Browser

Boogle Mail:

  • Service provider - mailbox.org with a custom domain
  • Client:
  1. FairEmail
  2. Posteo
  3. Thunderbird

Boogle Maps:

  • Modified PWA - Gmaps WV
  • Map data - OpenStreetMaps
  • 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:

  1. FreeTube
  2. PlasmaTube

Boogle messages:

  1. Fossify Messager
  2. 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. Nobara

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

Hypic (photo editor):

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

Gaming

  • Minecraft:
  1. Luanti
  2. 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:

  1. Adguard DNS
  2. NextDNS
  3. Quad9

Virtual private network:

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

Proxy:

  1. HTTPS Proxy
  2. SOCKS5 Proxy
  3. Tor Proxy

(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
  • Frontend - Redlib
  • Frontend instance - saferreddit.com, self-hosted

Github:

  • Repo - Gitlab, Codeberg
  • Frontend - Gothub (no chosen instance yet)

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

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?

Correct any misunderstandings if you can

  • Aqueduct5908@lemmy.world
    4·
    18 hours ago

    I don’t think I’ve seen anyone say to avoid tuta before, can I ask why you include them in that section?

  • Valerie Ashborne@feddit.org
    1·
    15 hours ago

    In the least judgemental way possible — consider familiarising yourself with languagetool https://languagetool.org/ (supports many languages; supported by some programs, like LibreOffice), you can self host it or use severs provided by 3rd party or Harper https://github.com/Automattic/harper (currently supports only English; and has very limited support by other programs). Because “de-boogle” is definitely a choice for an typo (ᵕ—ᴗ—)

    Boogle Maps:

    While maps is important and all that, but do not forget about public transportation. Currently, CoMaps is useless for that, so it is also worth mentioning solutions for public transportation. The biggest open source solution currently is https://transitous.org/ There also list of programs that use this service, like https://github.com/Wafler1/transportia

    Note, that in some countries this service might give results that are ranging from full to none, compared to Google or other providers.

    YouTube * Client:

    Still, GrayJay is really good for YouTube (and PeerTube and more), with cool features like local network sync, Harbor for decentralised comments, Linux client, download for videos and stuff that are part of ui (meaning, that you download videos inside of GrayJay), and more.

    Boogle messages:

    Note, that this does not cover RCS functionality.

    Gaming

    Worth mentioning Shattered Pixel Dungeon.