Sailfish OS thoughts / opinions?

cdoublejj · February 24, 2021, 8:48pm

Reading through their web page, think I like what I’m seeing so far. Was wondering if anyone had any thoughts or opinions?

imhigh.today · February 24, 2021, 9:19pm

I don’t see the appeal.

Their interface is proprietary, like iOS. If you’re fine using proprietary software, other OSes offer more features and a better experience. If you want openness, Android exists. If you want really open, other Linuxes do, too.

cdoublejj · February 24, 2021, 9:34pm

Do Any others run android apps in sand boxes and have vpn integration?

imhigh.today · February 24, 2021, 9:39pm

I’ve never seen an OS that runs Android apps better than Android.

Anbox exists and can run under any Linux. I’ve not yet seen it shipped in a working state by default on any OS, but “ships in a working state” is rare outside of Android and iOS, period.

If you put Sailfish on something, a review would be neat. I think a few people are waiting for the Android thing. If it actually works, they might want to know.

Baz · February 25, 2021, 11:04am

Smartphone privacy thread Phones & Tablets

Been using Sailfish OS on an Xperia X for a couple of months now, it’s neat that it’s a full-blown GNU/Linux distro based on OpenSuse (zypper available) but it’s nowhere near as mature as Android. Native apps are meh at best (but all the cli tools available then again is great, but it’s a phone afterall) and the lack of a couple basic features like fs encryption sucks. But then again, it’s targeted for tinkerers and devs atm. If it couldn’t run Android apps the phone would be just as limited as a dumb phone, or more like a plain linux handheld which it is… I haven’t installed the Play Services on it, and it’s not recommended either but people have done it, so for ie navigation I use Here Maps and for YouTube I’m using NewPipe. Ran Wireshark on the phone for lulz a while back overnight while I slept and it basically had sat there dead silent not talking to any server, didn’t dig through the logs but such a low amount of traffic, with Android services turned off, was a positive surprise.

Android apps worked fine with the necessary toolkit.

But since a couple years back already Russia bought the whole project so make of that what you will.

cdoublejj · February 25, 2021, 12:16pm

I was wondering about the privately owner part! Also they are advertising full file encryption at least home feet/user data encryption!

I forget the name but there is a play store alternative that give you access to play store but it’s randomized anonymous access. Forgot the name of it.

Baz · February 25, 2021, 1:00pm

That would have been the ‘yalp’ app, (just Play written backwards).

But anyways I don’t really have any up-to-date info therefore much of an opinion about it all, apart from yes it being a finnish company founded my ex-nokia employees etc etc so they’re not greenies by that aspect. It’s more a matter of funding and widespread adoption.
Well, speaking of adoption the Russians were planning to ban other OS:es on the government level and implement Sailfish but like I said I haven’t touched it in a couple of years so I’m not qualified to really be of any opinion.