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I'm using LineageOS with neither OpenGapps nor MicroG, and can confirm that Aurora works without. There are numerous apps available from Aurora that will not function, of course, and many other inconveniences of varying severity, but it's overall a good experience.

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I am using Lineage without Gapps, and every app on my phone came from F-Droid.

I assume that my carrier sees location data on my device, but as I have learned to live within F-Droid on my daily driver, I assume that I am immune from this Google intrusion.

I do have an older stock phone that keeps my Google login for when I need access to Google services. If it is powered down for a month, I am assuming that I am free of Google for that month.

Google is a destructive force upon their customer base. Abandoning Google is always the correct action.

> I am using Lineage without Gapps, and every app on my phone came from F-Droid.

Did you transition or quit cold turkey? I switched to Lineage OS with micog. Actually, now that I look through what I installed via Aurora, I'm surprised how few apps there are. 3 required for work. I guess I could reduce that to one with some effort. A few financial / shopping apps that are nice to have vs using their website. Google maps (not sure the replacement to that is).

RE Google maps, /e/OS ships with this: https://www.magicearth.com/

I've found it to be more than good enough. There's also various OSM based apps:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Android_ap...

> Google maps (not sure the replacement to that is).

Try HERE WeGo: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.here.app.m...

It’s not quite as polished as Google Maps, but I use it as my primary maps app and have mostly not been disappointed.

I used the MicroG respin of Lineage for perhaps a year, then on my next hardware upgrade I switched to naked Lineage.

I keep an iPhone 7 for corporate apps, but I'm on a Pixel 3a XL that hasn't talked to Google since I bought it.

> Google maps (not sure the replacement to that is).

OsmAnd~ is great :-)

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus

OsmAnd has been real hit or miss for me. It definitely has a lot more friction than Google Maps, and sometimes I'm not able to find a destination even with the full address. I want to use it, and I want to support the ecosystem, but damn if it doesn't make it difficult.

I agree. I'm trying to switch to OsmAnd from Here and even that is tough when it comes to finding an address on the map. You can find place names if they have been added to OpenStreetMap, which is mostly in big cities but that doesn't cover everything.

I uses a separate app called GPS Coordinates. I give it an address and it gives me lat/long which I paste into OSM. I'm sure there's gotta be a better way.

Thanks for the coordinates tip, I'll likely end up using that as a stopgap.

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