I like Projectivity since the free version has everything I need and it can intercept home button presses so it always loads that launcher.

I’ve heard that people also like FLauncher. It’s open source, but takes a bit more to get it going.

I just recently upgraded from an old Samsung 850 EVO 250gb SATA drive to a Crucial P3 1tb m.2 drive for OS and playing games (I have a NAS for any media and file storage)

Lots of m.2 drives are cheap right now

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