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minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up80arrow-down1·8 days agoThat talk about substitutes happened when it was initially handed over to said data miner, and anybody concerned should have switched back then. I did, moving to Lawnchair, and never looked back. Oodles of other options are doubtlessly available.
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 days agoI’m quite satisfied with lawn chair too
minus-squareEdce@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoLawnchair was too bare bones for me. However, I was able to recreate 90%+ of my Nova setup with Neo. https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher
minus-squareStatick@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 days agoHasn’t had a release since 2023 🫤
minus-squareEdce@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 days agoTheir other projects are in active development, so I wouldn’t consider it to be abandoned. I haven’t had any issues besides the desktop being occasionally unresponsive. Same thing used to happen to me in Nova. It’s FOSS and suits my needs. But I can see why others may want to stay away from it. https://github.com/NeoApplications
That talk about substitutes happened when it was initially handed over to said data miner, and anybody concerned should have switched back then. I did, moving to Lawnchair, and never looked back. Oodles of other options are doubtlessly available.
I’m quite satisfied with lawn chair too
Lawnchair was too bare bones for me. However, I was able to recreate 90%+ of my Nova setup with Neo.
https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher
Hasn’t had a release since 2023 🫤
Their other projects are in active development, so I wouldn’t consider it to be abandoned.
I haven’t had any issues besides the desktop being occasionally unresponsive. Same thing used to happen to me in Nova.
It’s FOSS and suits my needs. But I can see why others may want to stay away from it.
https://github.com/NeoApplications