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Anyone still using Sailfish OS ? (sailfishos.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I used to run it on my Xperia, and life was good. Then they announced a version for the Xperia 10 III, so I got hyped and bought the device. When the release came out, it lacks so many features and was riddled with bugs, so I never installed it. As of today (4.5.19), it seems the software still lacks basic features (ability to use the 3 cameras), and still has very annoying bugs (must use loidspeaker when in communication to prevent echo).

Am I misinformed ? Is anyone using it daily that could share their experience?

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I daily drived the original Jolla Phone. However since I realized that it was even more proprietary (the core apps + UI toolkit Silica is proprietary) than a simple AOSP Android ROM, I decided that my next phone would be a regular Android phone again.

Now I'm dual-booting both postmarketOS and CalyxOS (which is an Android ROM) oh my SHIFT6mq and I have no reason to ever go back to SailfishOS, even though I liked the experience at the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I suppose you dual boot them because postmarketOS isn't usable as a daily driver right ?

I liked Sailfish UI a lot, and the fact it was a "standard" Linux with coreutils, git, rsync, etc... by default was the main reason I switched to it. But yeah, I've been quite deceived by their recent "updates". I now have an Xperia 10 III, but there doesn't seem to be much custom ROMs that support it unfortunately (which is also why sailfish support isn't great anyway).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For some people it's definitely usable as a daily driver but not for me yet. I for one require some Android apps and Waydroid isn't far enough yet, but I also need good suspend/battery saving which isn't there yet on this particular device.