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If they can come up with a "Play Store" that developers can drop in ungoogled versions of their official apps, that would be killer.

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I think you're looking for this: https://f-droid.org/

The store I'm suggesting would contain commercial, non FOSS apps as well. There are some apps I use that will probably never be open source and there's no website version either.

For wider adoption, I think this would be necessary. Otherwise these phones will always remain a niche product.

FlatHub has commercial, proprietary apps in Flatpak sandbox format. It's generally targeted at "desktop" users, but the Flatpak sandbox ought to work just as easily on mobile devices based on mainline Linux, including the Purism phone.

Agree I can install f-droid, but I would still need the play store for most things...

It's been in early development for ages, but MicroG's degoogled Play Store may fit the bill.

https://microg.org/

I could see there being a filter for apps without google dependencies.

That said, I think F-Droid is still the better choice. If the source isn't open, then it'll be hard to prove that the apps aren't degoogled in the first place.

>It's been in early development for ages, but MicroG's degoogled Play Store may fit the bill.

>https://microg.org/

I think you meant https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/ ? microg hasn't worked with play store for a while now.

No, I meant microg's Phonesky. Aurora Store is probably why Phonesky's development has been nonexistent; Aurora already seems to do what Phonesky was hoping to accomplish.

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