Universal prefernces:

1. Lightweight
2. FOSS
3. Resource-effeciency
4. Offline-capable

Nice-to-have but non-garenteed features:

1. Eco-friendly
2. Decentralized
3. Complete independence from original service. Use frontend if possible

Avoiding alternative software developers (or companies/cooperations), only use their products as a last resort:

• Proton
• Mullvad
• Tuta
• Mozzila
• FUTO

De-Boogle

Boogle Search:

1. SearxNG
2. Marginalia
3. YaCy

Boogle Chrome:

1. FREE Browser
2. Librewolf
3. Tor Browser

Boogle Mail:

• Service provider - mailbox.org with a custom domain
• Client:

1. FairEmail
2. Posteo
3. Thunderbird

Boogle Maps:

• Modified PWA - Gmaps WV
• Map data - OpenStreetMaps
• Client - CoMaps

Boogle Gemini:

1. Duck.ai
2. Ollama

Boogle Play:

• Repo:

1. F-Droid
2. IzzyOnDroid
3. Obtainium

• Client - Aurora Store
• Client for repos:

1. Droid-ify
2. ObtainX

YouTube:

• Platform - PeerTube
• Frontend - Invidious
• Frontend instance - materialio.us, ytchocolatemoo.com, Self-hosted
• Client:

1. FreeTube
2. PlasmaTube

Boogle messages:

2. Fossify Messager
3. NovaDial

Boogle My Files:

1. Fossify File Manager

VirusTotal

1. Veto
2. Hypatia

Android - GrapeheneOS

Android Auto - Phone stand for car

De-Microslop

Windows:

1. CachyOS
2. Nobara

Office (or "Microslop Copilot 365"):

1. MA Office
2. LibreOffice
3. OnlyOffice

De-Meta

Facebook and instagram:

• Platform - Mastodon
• Client for platform - Smither

WhatsApp - SimpleX Chat

De-ByteDance:

TikTok - Loops

CapCut:

1. LibreCuts
2. Kdenlive

Hypic (photo editor):

1. Pocket Paint
2. Pinta
3. Inkscape
4. GIMP

Gaming

• Minecraft:

1. Luanti
2. Cubys

• Universe Sandbox - Galaxy Engine

• Space Engine - Celestia

• Territorial.io - OpenFront

• Tetris - Block Drop

• Wordle - Code Word

• Friday Night Funkin - Etterna

General internet:

Domain name system:

1. Adguard DNS
2. NextDNS
3. Quad9

Virtual private network:

1. Manual Wireguard VPN tunnel
2. Manual OpenVPN tunnel
3. Tor Network

Proxy:

1. HTTPS Proxy
2. SOCKS5 Proxy
3. Tor Proxy

(not really related for De-googling or opensource but mpreso for de-bloating) File types and codecs (wheneber possible):

.png/.JPEG:

1. .webp
2. jxl

.exc:

1. .ods

.mp4:

1. .webm
2. .VP9

.mp3:

1. .OPUS
2. .m4a

Other:

Reddit:

• Platform - Lemmy
• Frontend - Redlib
• Frontend instance - saferreddit.com, self-hosted

Github:

• Repo - Gitlab, Codeberg
• Frontend - Gothub (no chosen instance yet)

New additions:

1. Privacy Flip
2. Shizuku
3. Canta
4. EnforceDoze
5. SaverTuner
6. Wine
7. Virtual Box
8. Librefind
9. sustysubs.net
10. Yagni Launcher
11. LTE Cleaner

Useless reccomendations for me:

• Termux

On the sidelijes of comsideration:

• WizeStream (NewPipe fork)
• Flow (YouTube client)
• Skylib (Bluesky client, unlikely to actaully use)

Could use reccomendations for:

• Linux file manager
• Linux non-cloud-based photo gallery
• Long-term Linux distro if I find my beginner-friendly distros a bit pale in the future

Remaining questions:

• If you tested or use QubesOS, how's the experience?
• Do you use a non-Linux-based FOSS operating system (like ReactOS)? If so, how's the experience?
• Any alternatives I missed?
• Any other software categories I missed?
• Any other new additions that I missed?

Correct any misunderstandings if you can