After all these years I have never installed google services or used anything related to it. On SailfishOS I use f-droid and aptoide and some random apks from t

After all these years I have never installed google services or used anything related to it. On SailfishOS I use f-droid and aptoide and some random apks from the web after using some weird websites that I'm pretty sure probably did bad things because they just go and supposedly get the apks from play store but I have no idea what they really do. All the applications I try and that require stuff from google they just crash randomly or at some specific options. I just uninstall them or try to be very careful for them not to crash. It's horrible experience and it's not something so hard to prepare for. Some apolications handle it showing that an action can't be done and I'm ok with it, that's simple, but crashing because the services are not installed is just plain ridiculous, lazy and bad engeneering. Once upon a time slack just worked fine, just didn't auto refreshed updates, then on one update it started crashing and currently since a while ago an annoying message appears everytime I focus/open the apllication saying that I don't have the play services despite the application working completly fine. The proper thing to do would just to be a messsge saying something like: " the app requires google services, the quality of the experience will be reduced and actions FOO and BAR will not work. options: continue anyway, exit and continue and remeber that option" in order for it to be persintent and stop being annoying. Not that hard. I just endup not using a bunch of applications that I would like to. Apps that use maps or or try to get location will usually just crash. I never even installed Uber or tried it because I'm pretty sure it will just not work, so I didn't even try it. microG is the best thing I could hope for, but I really tried to use it but was not able too. It requires something about signing or whatever that just didn't work after I tried a lot doing things with Xposed or what it was called. Even getting to a point where that almost worked was crazy. I'm pretty sure the experience will be pretty similar in any other alternative OS that has to deal with this crazy environment. And I will never get a "real" android where that thing will come installed, I refuse to. I was thinking of changing phones to some android based thing, but the support of hardware is very limited, so I'm pretty stuck. Waiting for any newer Jolla phone or any other alternative phone/OS that works.