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The full guide to switching from big US tech to supporting more ethical and EU-based companies! (Redone with OSs added) (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Some really weird suggestions.

Free Software does not have a country of origin.

NixOS, uBlue, AerynOS poorly all rely on Github (Microsoft), but are far better distros than Ubuntu or Mint
Librewolf is better than Waterfox and way more common
Ecosia uses Bing, Kagi uses Yandex and is shady. Metager, SearX, Swisscows and more are actually good
Android, iOS -> GrapheneOS. No iodeOS, they are insecure and not comparable. Same for Fairphone and /e/OS. GrapheneOS is free software but also mainly in the US

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

@FallenWalnut

• Operating system
OpenSuse

👉Here is explained: https://privsec.dev/posts/linux/choosing-your-desktop-linux-distribution

• Messenger
Simplex

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

Isn't Waterfox quite slow on the updates?

I've been using LibreWolf, but I've been meaning to try out Zen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Zen has quite a steep learning curve, especially wjith workspaces and such. It’s a cool concept, but I switched back to Librewolf out of convenience and a leaner ux.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This guide is weird. It suggests to replace US products by other US products

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

sometime it’s better, for example signal is more popular as an alternative and value more privacy. But if you want to go a step further then you can go use less popular tools.

I didn’t switch yet because I don’t own replace messenger and whatsapp by 3-4 new product..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the hardest part are mobile OS 😔
Beside : eOS, sailfish and postmarket we have a long way...

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

Yes, but it turns out you can do a lot of 'switching' even if you can give up on android or iOS straight away. I follesdd this guide for degoogling my Samsung, not done yet but feels like I made some good changes: https://androides.nl/degoogle-guide/

Though large part is already covered by switching services / apps

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there a European Netflix or Youtube?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think its called BitTorrent.

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

I prefer Only Office (Desktop Version) to Libre Office, because

it does not look like over 20 year old Office 2003
it uses docx and xlsx as native format which makes it easier for noobs

I heared Only Office has some Russian connections. Otherwise it still is Open Source.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Onlyoffice uses Electron, which uses an outdated and seldomly updated version of Chromium 😵

It would be good if they could support QtWebengine or WebkitGTK, or if the Linux Desktops could start to support a single webview-like runtime

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

Oh, I see. And Electron is not really making things faster.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah mainly it ships often outdated versions of chromium, and duplicates of it (if you have Element, Onlyoffice and Signal Desktop, you have 3 versions of Chromium). So big bandwidth, RAM and storage waste.