Big false, most work just fine. They do often require the play store and services to work. Need to use the sandboxed Google services.
So, if you’re trying to de Google, ya, banking apps won’t work, but if you’re okay with just increased control and privacy, in you’re fine.
I just clicked download on 3 at a time until I was done. Could it be automated? Sure. But clicking 3 at a time is way faster than figuring it out.
I HIGHLY recommend immich-go if you haven’t found it yet: https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
Enjoy immich!! Great self hosting project.
I dislike that I can’t group up things in folders in graphene in the drawer. I switched to Smart Launcher. It’s not exactly folders, but it’s good.
Faster batching with better upload duplicate detection and it can preserve your Google photo sets (I didn’t use those though)