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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There was once a time where I thought living with apps from only F-Droid was impossible.

Now, F-Droid is my only app store, and I only use Aurora Store for banking apps (and even then, I prefer to do banking on desktop).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recently switched to a phone with only microG installed, absolutely 0 Google services.

It works insanely well nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that possible on stock rom? What are you running?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's possible to get rid of everything in the stock ROM.

I usually install LineageOS on all my phones but I'm on /e/OS right now because Lineage is not available yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Just started doing exactly this recently. Aurora fills the gaps for the stuff that I need without the play store.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This is exactly what I am doing.
I am very grateful to the foss community that this is possible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I got late to the party, I still use the Google Play Store, but I find some neat apps with Fdroid from time to time, and I was like "hey this isn't that bad" I feel weird to have spend so much time looking for individual APK files ngl.