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Alternatives to gmail products (gmail, office, etc)
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Good painless alternatives:
Chrome -> Firefox
Gmail/Calendar> Proton
Google Search -> Feels like all search engines got SEO'd into uselessness these days, but duckduckgo maybe.
Good but somewhat painful to switch alternatives:
Google Drive -> Proton
Office -> LaTeX/LibreOffice
ChromeOS -> Linux, yeah technically ChromeOS is also linux but come on, you know what I mean.
Less than ideal alternatives:
Maps -> Idk, not really many good options, apple maps is good too, but not sure if that's what you're looking for.
Android -> Idk, lol iOS, or de-googled android roms. Not many great alternatives there.
Is there anything else you need an alternative to?
You gotta wait for overture maps alternatives. It is an open map project by the linux foundation, microsoft, tomtom and some other companies. Its main purpose is to provide a competent competitor to google maps since these companies don't want to pay google royalties for their map data. It can also help osm since it is under an open license i think. It is still in alpha though at the time of writing this...