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I’ve been using the releases from github for a while, but this is a great step towards availability for many.
Is there something I would be missing when moving from Nova?
The version now called “Lawnchair Legacy” was very old and unmaintained. They’ve been working on this new version in the meantime.
They were talking about Nova, not Lawnchair. Nova hasn’t officially been abandoned, but they were purchased by a big data broker a few years ago, and just a few months ago Branch (Nova’s owner) laid off almost all of the Nova Launcher development team.
Nova is not dead, but the writing is on the wall.
I was on nova too. I tried a couple of launchers and settled on lawnchair. I like that it doesn’t try and force a new way to interact with your icons and screens.
It hasn’t the amount of flexibility of Nova, but I really didn’t need all that, I just want a nice stable launcher I can set up and forget.
I use Total Launcher, and it has this (and in fact you can swipe in 4 directions ⬆️⬇️⬅️➡️ rather than just the 2 that Nova offers).
Means that from my home screen I could, in theory, access 48 different apps/actions/shortcuts, as well as opening the 12 folders they represent. I use about 40 of them, but it’s good to have space for more if I want it.
As someone who used Nova for … shit, feels like a decade, I was also concerned about this when switching (I heard Nova was sold to an ad company and was super sketchy) but after using Niagara Launcher for the past month, I realized Nova was more complex than I ever needed. I haven’t tried Lawnchair yet, but don’t be afraid of switching unless there’s a hyper-specific feature you can’t live without. Give another launcher a shot for a week and see if you’re really missing Nova still!
