I’m not aware of major downsides to using a different luncher.
The biggest incovience is initial setup and putting your home screen apps back where they belong.
Spend a few hours to escape to some of google bloat and set your search bar to use Firefox (which has ublock support).
You can change it on other launchers.
Personally I like neolauncher.
https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher The search bar can be set to immediately directly open Firefox search, or you can pick form a list of various engines.
There’s a dozen other launchers to try. Lawnchair is a more popular choice, probably better for someone switching from pixel default. There’s a few very specific features it’s missing for me.
If you search Lemmy for “Nova Launcher” you’ll find some threads listing a dozen alternatives due to nova’s downfall.
I’ve started ignoring random posts about it.
Its the equivalent of telling your little sibling about it and having to listen to them shout “I lost the game” for next 5 months. It gets old quick.
Now if I think about this post and comment later on my own, then sure I’ll have lost the game.
I tried, and tried to like it. We all work differently. I like widgets on the home screen, swipe up for apps. I guess it’s the “start menu” mentality.
Guys this a fake review from the zombies! Never let your gaurd down.
Thank you for your suggestion.
Having just tried it, it is not for me. The categories is there, but having the search/app drawrr on the top won’t work me, especially with these stupid large phone everyone makes. (I’m guessing theres a way to change it, but I didnt get that far)
The ultimate reason its not for me is how widgets are a scrolling thing. It’s a different idea, but I like the widgets on my home screen where I can passively see them.
If there’s a way to change that, I didnt see it. I didn’t even find a way to get rid of the big clock at the bottom.
Cool, first impressions are pretty good.
It took a minute to find, the play store has some not free thing. But I found the github page.
My bad, it is collabora
Edit: I figured out what happened My brain combined LibreOffice and Collabroa and got Calibe the fantastic eBook managar.
I love you can set eq per device. My phone speaker, headphones and car all have their own settings. Its fantastic.
Nova launcher.
I Haven’t found one that works so well with KLWP or has good app drawer organization. I like having folders and tabs to split everything up. Having one big list of apps (70% I dont use often and another 10% bloat) isn’t useful.
Have you tried calibre collabora office? It not 100% there, but could work. (No idea how well it’d work with next cloud)
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To be fair word isn’t good at it either.
I’ve found setting a PowerPoint slide to standard paper size is the best for quick page layout and “graphic design” for things like a poster or sign.
Yes they are. But no one who can do anything about it is doing anything about it.
Early apple had personality, now it’s been replaced.
You know, thinking back - that test (and all the rest) would have yielded much better results for us if they had us do them more often.
Instead it was normal sports most of the year and twice a year we did nothing but various strength, endurance, and sprinting exercises for one class.
Honestly, they might as well change the name to Gates. Feels like I have to break through one every time I want to do anything useful.
That’s a tasty looking green apple.
There’s a lot terrible articles with clickbate titles too. A lot of the articles I’m interested reading are either clickbate/ragebait or way out of context or just completely false.