I've seen quite a few launchers on F-Droid, but I really fail to see what their advantages over the stock one are. I mean, what can be meaningfully different about arranging apps in a grid? But I guess the existence of so many options goes to show I just don't get the gist of it.

So what launchers actually provide some interesting features that make it worth switching to them?

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I really enjoy Niagra, I installed it three times before it clicked with me. It is also telemetry that I moved away from. I had nova for years but it got slopped.

I think Olauncher is on my tablet and I likeit. Lightweight and foss.

[–] Guiorgy@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

What happened to Nova? I use it and seems to work fine?

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

It's proprietary so it was always bad. The degooglers just realized it when it bit them in the ass, but before then they were promoting it all over the FOSS/degoogle community as one of the good proprietary apps.

[–] mlem@startrek.website 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It got bought by an ad company. https://www.androidauthority.com/nova-launcher-acquisition-ads-update-3633871/

[–] Guiorgy@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

Ah sh*t