Software Alternatives

You can use alternatives in the following list to help migrate off of big tech platforms.

• Operating System (Windows, MacOS): Linux (Fedora)
• Email (Outlook, Gmail): ThunderBird, ProtonMail
• Storage (OneDrive): ProtonDrive
• Office (Microsoft Office, Word, Excel): LibreOffice
• Images (PhotoShop): GIMP
• Browser (Chrome, Edge): LibreWolf, FireFox. Tor, Brave
• IDE (Visual Studio Code): VS Codium
• Search (Google, Bing): DuckDuckGo, french, paid search, etc.

startpage.com: -Delivers anonymized Google results -Dutch company, EU data protection

DuckDuckGo: -Delivers anonymized Bing results, supplemented by other sources -American company -Clicking on advertisements may transmit data to Microsoft.

WhatsApp:

Azure/AWS/Google Cloud

Signal:

It's free (funded through donations)

Wider distribution, internationally and in Switzerland

It uses servers from Amazon and Google, but is fully encrypted.

Threema:

It costs a one-time fee of 6 francs.

Swiss company, own servers in Switzerland

Registration possible without a phone number

NextCloud Cloud Carib

//TODO: Proton has a mail client that simplifies domain forwarding configuration and includes a VPN