Degoogle your life: feasible alternatives

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Hi all,

I’m quite new to this community, so if this question is off topic please let me know.

I recenty installed Manjaro KDE out of a long felt curiosity and as an attempt to use it for all of my home computing. In time I will also degoogle my life. I wonder how many alternatives will also work on Manjaro in combination with many android phones, my manjaro or other linux laptop and a few win10 pc’s in my household of 2 adults and 2 kids.

I am looking for a secure and privacy respecting solutions for mail, calendar and drive, and also I need at least one but preferably more shared calendar for family events.

Has anyone gone a similar path before me and what would they recommend?

Kind regards,

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Proton comes highly recommended - https://proton.me

  • drive
  • calendar
  • mail
  • vpn
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Hi @jagercode,

Have a look at ProtonMail. I think it has calendar as well.

have a look at https://fruux.com/

Have a look at OpenDrive

Obviously for most, if not all of this you’ll have to pay, but that’s the price of privacy.

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Bluemail isn’t completely open source but works extremely well on android Linux and Windows. It will sync everything and has a feature called magic sync. For storage personally I use Dropbox and mega but they are not open source

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I would recommend hosting a nextcloud instance yourself. However, I know that this is not feasible for anybody (server administration, security, maintenance, setting it up, etc.).

You can find other alternatives (also hosted ones) here: GNU/Linux - Platforms - PRISM Break

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