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?

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    I agree with yoiu. People’s obsession with customizing their UI to be JUST SO seems really weird to me, whether it’s Linux or Android. I’m utilitarian at heart and for sure there are some UIs that work better for some things than others, but overall I find most of the discussion in this space motivated by control-freakery over practicailty, like people would rather spend time researching, installing and customizing their UI than actually doing anything with it.

    And that’s fine. People are allowed to have their hobbies, but I, like you, wondered what was wrong with me that I didn’t care about it until I realized there is nothing wrong with me at all, it’s just not something i have interest in.

    Though I will admit I did get into that WIndows power user UI editor thing that let you snap windows to a predetermined grid for a little bit, but that’s when I was spending a lot of time transferring information between 3 different apps…

    • arty@feddit.orgEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      The only “customization” I needed was getting back 1/3 of my screen estate, taken by the clock and search bar by default

    • anhopki1@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      Yeah honestly I agree. I’ve never found the point in UI customization unless it’s to make it more utilitarian than aesthetic focussed. If it’s already good there really isn’t a reason to go all in on customization.