Been using a degoogled LineageOS phone with all apps being exclusively FLOSS. My favourite free alternatives to proprietary apps and services must be Lemmy (Jerboa) for Reddit, ArcaneChat and Matrix (Extera) for Telegram, Fluxer for Discord.
Which ones are your favourite?
FUTO Keyboard I mainly use swipe typing, and it works better for me, than google keyboard.
Not FLOSS though. Only source available.
FUTO keyboard? I can’t find it on fdroid
It’s not on F-Droid because it is proprietary.
https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/futo-keyboard/
Ok, so the code is open source but its not a do anything you want with it?
It’s not open source. The open source definition is about more than being able to see source code. The usual term for the latter is “source-available” which tells you nothing about what you’re actually able to do with it.
Another term I use is “proprietary source available software” (PSAS) as a mirror to “free, open source software” (FOSS). Note that the “free” in that term refers to free software (libre) not free-of-cost (gratis). The free software definition and open source definition generally overlap so most licenses that are one will also be the other. In other words, “open source but not FOSS” is not a thing (and is generally a misnomer for PSAS).
As an analogy, you wouldn’t say a store is “open” just because you can look in the windows and see things.
Gotcha, do you happen to know any alternatives that are actually FOSS? I tried Urik keyboard but it doesn’t hold up for FUTO keyboard in terms of swipe typing and multilingualism
There is HeliBoard, but swipe typing unfortunately requires Google’s gesture typing library at the moment. There is work being done to create a foss replacement for the gesture typing library.
Not yet usable for a pure foss system, but it will be once the gesture library is ready.
I replaced FUTO with HeliBoard quite a while back. I’m contributing swipe data to help the effort with an open swipe library.
Overall the only feature I’m missing is changing to COLMAK.
You need to add the futo repo to fdroid https://f-droid.org/tutorials/add-repo/
Thanks! I really like swipe typing I just couldn’t find one good enough Ps: I’m liking what I’m seeing
I’ve had a worse experience with their swiping which is annoying because in general i like that keyboard way more