Finally an operating system without preinstalled “Gapps” I’ve been thinking for a while when and how to make the switch to a semi-Google-free environment and had made a spontaneous decision to download the Easy Installer. Although I’ve donated a bit at UB ports and for Anbox to push the Linux side for the Fairphone 3 and Android apps, but that might take time. I set up my new /e/ OS yesterday, I was able to replace all but a few apps. Only my banking app and the Bitpanda app are missing, the rest I was able to get from the in-house store, or directly as APK from the app makers. I use a Linux Manjaro laptop and a Windows desktop, am slowly scaling out of the big service providers like Google and Microsoft. I rarely used Google except for Youtube, but the Microsoft Office products are still there. But with /e/ Drive and the online ecosystem, great opportunities have been created to slowly replace the big services (still need to transfer some data from OneDrive to the /e/ Nextcloud) - but once that’s done, I’m glad opting out was possible 
And with the /e/ ecosystem I was also able to create a lot of interoperability between /e/ OS, Linux and Windows, which I think is actually extremely nice. I’m very, very happy overall - just one technical thing that I found a bit disruptive:
The only thing I have now with the Fairphone 3 (+ camera modules) is that the performance has dropped a bit since I switched to /e/ OS. Unfortunately I don’t have any CPU/GPU or Ram data now that I could have made a comparison with. At first I had the power saving mode permanently active on the FP3 and never noticed any performance drops, the apps all ran smoothly. Now it is that when running apps, et cetera - unfortunately some processes and apps are now very laggy/delayed.
Thanks for the work
