i’ve been trying to get rid of non-foss garbage as much as possible but i haven’t found anything to replace the microsoft launcher yet, a few good candidates but they were all either underbaked or too unstable to use. Any suggestions?

  • beerclue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    27 days ago

    I’ve never heard of Microsoft Launcher before… A lot of people seem to like Nova Launcher, I’ve used Lawnchair in the past, but nowadays I just don’t care anymore, I use the Pixel default. I try to use as little Google stuff as possible, but the launcher is hassle free.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
      8·
      27 days ago

      I’ve run the Microsoft launcher for a short while, until I did network analysis on my phone and found out every single tap on the launcher sent data to Microsoft. From dragging through the app list to holding a finger down for the settings, everything launched analytics.

      I kicked that stuff out the moment I found out. Kind of sad, the launcher itself wasn’t half bad. It had some interesting design choices that I haven’t seen elsewhere.