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I use lawnchair. From f-droid.
Fossify launcher is good and simple too. (Also on f-droid).
dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️Lawnchair for me as well.
Back in the good old days Nova was actually one of the three apps I paid for. Can’t say as I’m pleased about things with Nova going down the way they did, but I can’t say as I’m too surprised, either. (The other two in case anyone cares are Torque and Alpine Quest.)
I guess I paid for nova too, a very long time ago (maybe when I was on android 4 or 5), I stopped using it because of some disturbing bugs. I didn’t follow that much of its evolution after that. I kinda lost interest for custom launchers, as the ones from the phones I bought or the ROMS I installed were good enough for me.
I started looking for launchers again because I started using /e/os a few years ago, and I do not like their launcher at all.
Schwim DandyOctopi became my Nova replacement.
RandomLegend [He/Him]NeoLauncher feels quite like Nova for me.
that’s what j switched to
dotCodyNiagara Launcher. I paid for pro. No regrets. Well, so far.
What I said about Nova pro a few years ago…
Exactly. I’ll dump Niagara in a heartbeat if they start enshittifying.
Dropped this garbage a month ago and went over to lawnchair. This betrayal cuts me deep.
literally 984 😔
Nova used to be great. Dropped them a couple years ago when they got bought by an ad company. Maybe it was longer ago. Now I have Lawnchair running on GrapheneOS and couldn’t be happier until a more useable Linux phone OS comes about. I tried postmarket and it’s cool as an alpha but it really wasn’t daily usable.
That reminds me, I really need to find an alternative to nova launcher, but for now grapheneos lets me deny network access to it completely, which helps a lot.
vermeil
zitrone 🍋