Hello all, Looking for an alternatives to gmail and it’s apps as I’m trying to de-google from their services.
I recommend what DuckDuckGo has to say.
They aren’t the ones hosting a majority of the Google alternatives listed in the blog…
Good painless alternatives:
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Chrome -> Firefox
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Gmail/Calendar> Proton
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Google Search -> Feels like all search engines got SEO’d into uselessness these days, but duckduckgo maybe.
Good but somewhat painful to switch alternatives:
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Google Drive -> Proton
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Office -> LaTeX/LibreOffice
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ChromeOS -> Linux, yeah technically ChromeOS is also linux but come on, you know what I mean.
Less than ideal alternatives:
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Maps -> Idk, not really many good options, apple maps is good too, but not sure if that’s what you’re looking for.
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Android -> Idk, lol iOS, or de-googled android roms. Not many great alternatives there.
Is there anything else you need an alternative to?
I like OpenStreetMap more than Google Maps.
Search (in order of ease):
you can switch from 365 to onlyoffice too
Not really the same thing, but I switched from Google Drive to Syncthing. It’s not as secure in terms of “chance of losing your data”, but I’m replicating data on my main PC, on my phone and on my RPi Zero and this is good enough for me, at least for now. Ideally I would periodically encrypt and upload every synced folder to the cloud (just because it’s encrypted), but that’s for another day.
I switched to Kagi search engine about 3 weeks ago and so far I love it! I’m never going back.
Same. Love Kagi.
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