So, anybody know a good launcher to use once Nova goes offline?

  • b000rg@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    PSA: Nova Launcher’s owning company sells their user data. It was a good launcher when it first came out, but it’s been nothing but a downward spiral from there.

    Edit for clarity: I don’t mean the app itself. It is owned by an entity that exists to sell consumer data.

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      3 months ago

      But, but, they assured us that that wasn’t going to happen? You mean they lied??

      JFC, what a fall from grace for Nova. Sad to see.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I’ve been using Nova for ages, probably back from the KitKat days on a Samsung phone running Touchwiz, i.e. when everything from the vendor side was crap.

      I just switched back to my Moto G5’s stock launcher. Honestly, it already does everything I did with Nova. It supports theming, adaptive icons, you can configure the density of its grid, etc. So I uninstalled Nova. Fuck it.

      Realistically I think most stock launchers are probably perfectly adequate for everything normal users want to do these days.