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.
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.