Time flies…

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, I hate DRM!

They don’t recommand it because if bought today you won’t have much support in the comming years. So if you are already on Pixel 6 Pro you can install GOS it’s just that once Google stop supporting it Graphene will do the same.

Yep it’s not re-inventing the wheel so it should do fine.

I think it’s maintained anymore but it is a very cool project indeed

https://hydralauncher.gg/ has a native Linux client. I never tried it and haven’t pirated a game in a decade so I cannot share any experience. But my guess would be that if the game runs on Proton or Wine, the cracked version should to.

https://www.emuvr.net/ :D

I tend to agree but it still remove more google blobs from its codebase.

• Bug reports
• Sharing on forums, private groups, website like AlternativeTo, etc…
• Documentation
• Financial contribution even if small (Open Collective, Liberapay, Bitcoin, PayPal, Ko-Fi, Cryptocurrencies,…)
• Localization / Translation

The mafia that welcomed all the refiugees from T411. I am also pretty happy that this tracker is out of business in such a disasterous way. They had no principles and were greedy asf. I hope the best for the french speaking torrent community and the p2p empire.

Most of the time I use MarkDown and export as PDF, if I need more complex layouts I’ll use Libre Office

You forgot to mention that it was ported years after its initial launch. Porting is way cheaper than developing especially nowadays where we have basically the same architecture in a dedicated DRM machine (console) than in a Personal Computer, it’s basically a x86 APU running a proprietary fork of BSD (and Windows for xBox). It’s not like back in the days where each machine (pc or console) had there own architectures that could radically differ. Also Game Engines have feature backed-in, Vulkan is universal (and better than DirectX (Microsoft) or OpenGL). Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised that selling 3M copies on Steam alone at a 50% discount would still be a profitable porting.

Porting and developing are not my jobs DYOR.

There is an easy by-pass, simply modify a config file. Guide here: https://rentry.co/Prism4Free

https://freesmlauncher.org/ or follow https://rentry.co/Prism4Free

DRM-free games is the main reason why I buy on GOG. Preservation is nice to have and donate to round up the price of purchase but I don’t have money to become a patron. This feels important enough for me to care but not enough for me to put money every month in it. I’m glad people are doing it and that GOG exist.

This is a DE not a distro, System76’s distro is named Pop_OS!

The thing that they don’t show a code Licence in their comparison is a bit off. It’s proprietary software comparing to FOSS or Open Source competitor without any mention to this… But maybe it’s decent.

It runs like shit, at least when I tried it. Never heard of Continuwuity, will looks into it thanks.

Yeah Keet (and Pear in general) are doing some open washing, branding their apps as open source while using very restrictive licences, at least that’s how I feel about them. It’s closer to source available to my eyes.

While I agree to avoid using Sandboxed GMS I strongly disagree with do NOT use statement.

My personal case

My main profile doesn’t have them, I get some proprietary apps through AuroraStore which grabs the APKs directly from Google Play Store without using my Google account and most of the time it works (Aurora Store is a bit buggy at time).

There is some apps that I can’t use without Play Services or if they are not installed from Play Store itself (FUCK DRMs!). For them I have setup a user profile with the Sandboxed Play Services, it stopped when I leave the profile and let me use these apps that I NEED more than absolute privacy or anonymity.

My recommendations

I strongly recommend to anyone to try using GrapheneOS without them, especially if you’re already into multiple FOSS apps. The Plexus app could help you identify which apps would cause issues for you without the Google shit. Then if needed for some apps with no alternative that suits you, setting up either a seperated user profile or, if it’s too unconveniant for you, a Private Space with the Sansboxed Play Store and Services installed. And if these two are still not conveninant for you just install them on your main profile, that sucks but that’s the sad reality of Android. As stated by the GrapheneOS Team it will still be way better than stock Google OS or any other manufacturer flavour of Android.

Not everybody have the same threat model and using GrapheneOS will improve your security, privacy and control over your device even with these proprietary background services from Google. Maybe for your threat model (or ideaology) you shouldn’t use them but that doesn’t mean everybody should do the same. Privacy shouldn’t be all or nothing, it’s about power and control over your personal informations, and GrapheneOS is a wonderful tool to take back some of that from your phone, having Sandboxed Play Store is okay even if not desired and you can choose how you want it thus having control and power over them.