I don’t even have the sandboxed Play store and everything works. I use Aurora to download APKs for anything that isn’t FOSS (which is like, two things)
MicroG might be installed, but I don’t use anything that uses it. Since Aurora lets you search for apps that don’t require it, I always go for one that doesn’t.
The point is that people severely exaggerate how “unusable” a degoogled phone is. There are FOSS alternatives to most things, and anything there isn’t an alternative to is probably a shitty service that you’d be better off without (see: burger apps)
Banking apps are pretty important, as is mychart for my doctor. I suppose I could get them through browser or PWA but it’s massively easier to just get the app.
I wouldn’t call a completely degoogled phone “unusable” but for most people it’s going to be mildly to massively inconvenient for little benefit. You can get like 90% of that benefit for 2% of the inconvenience with the sandboxed playstore
I don’t even have the sandboxed Play store and everything works. I use Aurora to download APKs for anything that isn’t FOSS (which is like, two things)
Are you using microG or Google Services Framework at all?
MicroG might be installed, but I don’t use anything that uses it. Since Aurora lets you search for apps that don’t require it, I always go for one that doesn’t.
Oh. Well then yeah of course it’ll all work
The point is that people severely exaggerate how “unusable” a degoogled phone is. There are FOSS alternatives to most things, and anything there isn’t an alternative to is probably a shitty service that you’d be better off without (see: burger apps)
Banking apps are pretty important, as is mychart for my doctor. I suppose I could get them through browser or PWA but it’s massively easier to just get the app.
I wouldn’t call a completely degoogled phone “unusable” but for most people it’s going to be mildly to massively inconvenient for little benefit. You can get like 90% of that benefit for 2% of the inconvenience with the sandboxed playstore