Linux on a phone sucks too. Hopefully, it won’t one day but for it now, it does. To be fair, I’ve only used Ubuntu Touch and PocketBlue. Of those two, Pocket Blue was better, in my opinion. PostmarketOS looks promising but I don’t have a device that will run it well. Too many key features don’t work on my OnePlus 6t at the moment.
Jolla uses a downstream kernel and when the SoC manufacturer drops supports, usually after just a few years, you will no longer get updates with it.
That’s why devices with mainline kernel support are great, you can use them until they literally fall apart.
For example Fairphone has devices that are well supported with a mainline kernel and those are repairable as well.
Also, keep in mind there are very few SailfishOS apps, compared to just regular Linux apps that run well with Phosh or KDE Plasma Mobile. You can often just use the exact same software as on the desktop, which is neat.
On SailfishOS, you’d probably have to make extensive use of the prorietary Android app support, which is just an LXC container running Android.
That way you’d run a downstream kernel with a Linux userland and an Android container on top instead of just a regular Linux system.
Linux on a phone sucks too. Hopefully, it won’t one day but for it now, it does. To be fair, I’ve only used Ubuntu Touch and PocketBlue. Of those two, Pocket Blue was better, in my opinion. PostmarketOS looks promising but I don’t have a device that will run it well. Too many key features don’t work on my OnePlus 6t at the moment.
For now, AOSP with FDROID is where it’s at.
Fingers crossed the new Jolla phone will be good
Jolla uses a downstream kernel and when the SoC manufacturer drops supports, usually after just a few years, you will no longer get updates with it.
That’s why devices with mainline kernel support are great, you can use them until they literally fall apart.
For example Fairphone has devices that are well supported with a mainline kernel and those are repairable as well.
Also, keep in mind there are very few SailfishOS apps, compared to just regular Linux apps that run well with Phosh or KDE Plasma Mobile. You can often just use the exact same software as on the desktop, which is neat.
On SailfishOS, you’d probably have to make extensive use of the prorietary Android app support, which is just an LXC container running Android.
That way you’d run a downstream kernel with a Linux userland and an Android container on top instead of just a regular Linux system.
in curious about graphene I just want to put it on a non critical device (which I don’t have) first.