It runs like shit, at least when I tried it. Never heard of Continuwuity, will looks into it thanks.

Yeah Keet (and Pear in general) are doing some open washing, branding their apps as open source while using very restrictive licences, at least that’s how I feel about them. It’s closer to source available to my eyes.

While I agree to avoid using Sandboxed GMS I strongly disagree with do NOT use statement.

My personal case

My main profile doesn’t have them, I get some proprietary apps through AuroraStore which grabs the APKs directly from Google Play Store without using my Google account and most of the time it works (Aurora Store is a bit buggy at time).

There is some apps that I can’t use without Play Services or if they are not installed from Play Store itself (FUCK DRMs!). For them I have setup a user profile with the Sandboxed Play Services, it stopped when I leave the profile and let me use these apps that I NEED more than absolute privacy or anonymity.

My recommendations

I strongly recommend to anyone to try using GrapheneOS without them, especially if you’re already into multiple FOSS apps. The Plexus app could help you identify which apps would cause issues for you without the Google shit. Then if needed for some apps with no alternative that suits you, setting up either a seperated user profile or, if it’s too unconveniant for you, a Private Space with the Sansboxed Play Store and Services installed. And if these two are still not conveninant for you just install them on your main profile, that sucks but that’s the sad reality of Android. As stated by the GrapheneOS Team it will still be way better than stock Google OS or any other manufacturer flavour of Android.

Not everybody have the same threat model and using GrapheneOS will improve your security, privacy and control over your device even with these proprietary background services from Google. Maybe for your threat model (or ideaology) you shouldn’t use them but that doesn’t mean everybody should do the same. Privacy shouldn’t be all or nothing, it’s about power and control over your personal informations, and GrapheneOS is a wonderful tool to take back some of that from your phone, having Sandboxed Play Store is okay even if not desired and you can choose how you want it thus having control and power over them.

A website called The Pirate Bay with nothing to pay doesn’t look the official way to acquire or watch the last Disney movie to me.

Maybe memoria but I don’t think it support e2ee. However it is a self-hosted solution which is more private than a unecrypted SaaS with tons of telemetry.

That is the distinction between Open Source and Free (as in Freedom) Software. I prefer the spanish/latin/french term Libre to refer to what you call “truly open source”.

Open source is indeed frequently used by big and smaller companies to do what I call OpenWashing. Yes the source code is available somewhere but the licence is so restrictive that it doesn’t respect my freedom and thus isn’t Libreware / Free Software.

Also copyleft for the win!

It’s less resilient, honestly with today speeds it is not that less efficient I would say.

It depends on your local laws I think. I’m pretty sure downloading free copyrighted product from an unauthorized source is still illegal in France for exemple.

https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19634

https://distrosea.com/

InstaFel?

I’m not a fan of NonSteamLaunchers but I’m happy about this

Yes, developers needs to implement fovated rendering but not fovated streaming.

Honestly I fined macOS fine feature-wide but the defaults aren’t great for me so I tweaked many things and the annoying part of this is that I rely on multiple third party tools for what I consider should be native settings to change.

Maybe I don’t remember the defaults on macOS and assume my setup is macOS UX but it’s quite tweaked yeah. I find my config closer to Gnome than my memories of Windows. But I agree that Gnome is radially different and that’s what I’ve write in my comment.

Isn’t Cosmic based on Gnome? I have to try it, I was hyped when they announced it and now it’s realeased.

What about the DE used in ElementaryOS? ZorinOS Pro has some macOS themes and KDE is heavily flexible to replicate macOS’s UX.

• ZorinOS (especially for Windows users)
• LinuxMint (especially for Windows users)
• Fedora (if users want something radically different than Windows or macOS, it’s closer to macOS than Windows tho)
• Bazzite (Fedora-based atomic distro, if most of usage is gaming)

Yeah fuck the video codec mafia and all these proprietary shits like HDMI

Heroic has slow download from GoG and Epic on my machine too.

Yes, sorry I was too lazy to provide any sources here are a few (mostly in french sorry). It was called the 8 December case or “L’Affaire du 8 décembre” in french.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_December_2020_case
• https://lundi.am/Affaire-du-8-decembre-recit-d-une-mise-en-examen-pour-association-de
• https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2020/12/11/sept-militants-de-l-ultragauche-deferes-devant-un-juge-antiterroriste_6063103_3224.html
• https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/10/02/affaire-du-8-decembre-le-droit-au-chiffrement-et-a-la-vie-privee-en-proces/
• https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/06/05/affaire-du-8-decembre-le-chiffrement-des-communications-assimile-a-un-comportement-terroriste/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230607132838/https://soutien812.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1922/2023/03/ArticleCamille_RevueZ.pdf

Edit:

• https://archive.is/https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/10/05/le-proces-de-l-affaire-du-8-decembre-2020-debute-dans-une-ambiance-tendue_6192573_3224.html

You forgot that french juges have used the facts that people installed Linux, Signal, /e/OS and GrapheneOS has evidence to charge them!

I think they were leftists activists charged for eco-terrorism but I don’t remember all the details but you should take a look. La Quadrature du Net has done some blogging and court things over this events of dark times.