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