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FOSS Software I use, proprietary apps alternatives (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Hello everyone! This is my list of FOSS software I use 😃

Android FOSS alternatives to proprietary apps

Google Board -> FlorisBoard
Google Play -> Aurora Store^[1]^
Termius -> ConnectBot^[2]^
Discord -> Element
Xiaomi Fit -> Gadget Bridge^[3]^
Google Gmail -> K-9 Mail
YouTube -> LibreTube
Google Authenticator -> Mauth
Google News -> Nextcloud News^[4]^
Google Drive -> Nextcloud^[4]^
Google Keep -> Nextcloud Notes^[4]^
Spotify -> SubTune^[4]^
YouTube Music -> ViMusic
Google Chrome -> Mull

^1^- You need a Google account.
^2^ - The UX is not as good as Termius.
^3^ - The UI looks like garbage, but does it's job.
^4^ - You need to selfhost a server.

Android FOSS alternatives to FOSS apps

Jellyfin -> Findroid
F-Droid -> Droid-ify

Desktop FOSS

Windows -> Fedora 38 Workstation
Firefox -> LibreWolf (telemetry free, hardened firefox)

Other software

Android -> Lineage OS
Linux server -> Debian (without GUI)
Smart home -> Home Assistant
SMS -> Signal
DNS -> Adguard Home (selfhosted)

Other services

Google -> Qwant (it's so good!)
YouTube (desktop) -> Piped

Suggest me:

Google Maps
Shazam

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[–] BearPear@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Instead of using Gmaps. You can try

Organic Maps (Simple and clean app that just works)
OsmAnd (Full of great features but it may be too much for you). Supports realtime map update in pro version or the fdroid version.
Magic Earth but i think it is not foss
Mapy.cz uses Openstreetmap but it also does not seem to be foss. But the map is updated in real time.

[–] olof@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

+1 for Organic Maps. Create an open streetmap account and contribute - its a game changer for me. Instead of a consumer, you're a contributor. (That goes for all OSM ofc)

[–] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GmapsWV when you have no other choice

[–] notExactlyI20@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This, in conjunction with OrganicMaps/Osmand is god.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Is there anything other than Google maps that can pull google's traffic data? There's a lot of construction on my way to work right now so I rely on that to not get stuck in traffic.