Europellinore

Switched from gmail to proton, from google maps to Mapy.com (and open street maps more in general), from windows to Linux (on a refurbished - unfortunately American - laptop), switched from Microsoft office to LibreOffice, from Uber to Bolt, largely from ChatGPT to LeChat (Mistral) and Lumo (Proton), from google translate to DeepL, from google chrome to Vivaldi.

Signal presumably has more users than all others combined. Don’t make it too diffucult. You better might switch them to a messaging app that appears to be useful to their other contacts too, not only for messaging with you and each other. Other alternatives: https://buy-european.net/en/alternative-to/whatsapp https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/whatsapp

As far as I know HERE WeGo app is based on OSM and also includes life traffic info

The main problem is that far too many Europeans mindlessly cling to everything google. There are plenty of suitable European alternatives. Probably not for every use case, especially in business, but more than enough to grow European tech and support European business. https://buy-european.net/en/alternatives

I think EveryDoor and GoMap!! (in which switching off several less-relevant types of ‘quests’ might be useful). More theme-based MapComplete can be used as well, but that can only through your browser, no special app)

The main problem is that far too many Europeans mindlessly cling to everything google. There are plenty of suitable European alternatives. Probably not for every use case, but more than enough to grow European tech and support European business. https://buy-european.net/en/alternatives

The Tuxedo option sounds reasonable to me. Personally I switched to Linux roughly half a year ago. Dual boot with both Linux Mint and Zorin. Main reason to choose for those, is perceived accessibility and convenience for people new to Linux. Useful website: https://distrochooser.de/

Similar experience here. Bottomline: in contributing to OSM it’s obviously most important to focus on adding and improving information that is relevant to navigation (addresses, POI’s, street specs). Apps or website like GoMap!! and MapComplete can be helpful, but also tend to distract to navigation-irrelevant specs like building types of barns, subsurface of the playground area, etc.

Proton

Today they’re with a discount of 10%

Today they’re with a discount of 10%