PixelXpert VS Shelter

If you are rooted, Pixel Launcher Extended (w/ Pixel Launcher Mods) + AOSPMods (you will also need LSPosed) will give you custom rom levels of customizations on top of the pixel launcher. I really think this is how stock PixelOS should be as there are plenty of informative features like flashlight brightness adjustment or knowing the exact wattages my phone is charging at.

It's a feature flag, only available on userdebug builds. You can work around this by rooting your device and installing AOSP Mods , there should be an option to enable it there.

It's what I use as well. Here is the GitHub link. 2.8.0 works good for me on LOS 20

AOSP-Mods should do the job 👍

No, this https://github.com/siavash79/AOSPMods

Default "Trebuchet" Android launcher, tweaked with AOSPMods : d

It's stock but I do have Magisk installed and I'm using the AOSPMods module that allows me to customize the UI more

After a while you just say "dang it, will not allow this anymore" and take the high road. If you are using one device for all purposes but need those paid and proprietary apps installed, consider running them within a different profile. There is a good floss app for that called [Shelter](https://gitea.angry.im/PeterCxy/Shelter) because on vanilla android this feature might not be possible for your phone (on Pixel phones for example android offers to use Google Work Profile but you need a special account for that). Shelter can create a work profile on your phone, you can install programs within your different profile. This might help a bit :)

Shelter (version 427): Shelter is a Free and Open-Source (FOSS) app that leverages the "Work Profile" feature of Android to provide an isolated space that you can install or clone apps into.

You can get Shelter at F-Droid https://www.f-droid.org/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/ Or Github (Github package is outdated) https://github.com/PeterCxy/Shelter/releases/tag/1.6

Download app-release.apk https://github.com/PeterCxy/Shelter/releases

For Android you don't even need to change your OS. You can install Shelter and use it to isolate the app.

There are Apps like Island, Shelter and Insular that allow you to (ab-)use these work profiles to provide sandboxed environments for specific apps, including the ability to have a separate instance of an app in each work profile sandbox.

Apps Isolated via Shelter for full privacy

If you are on an android phone what supports shelter[1], I can recommend installing "social" apps inside the shelter, and just sleep the apps when you don't use them.

In regards to windows, it feels to me as morphing into a solution for large corporations if disregarding the tabloid news while leaving private users just waiting for a friendly OS to be presented for them.

[1] https://github.com/PeterCxy/Shelter