So long, Sailfish OS! [not a question]
I've been using SailfishOS for quite some time now. I started with a Jolla phone years ago and switched to Sailfish X one year ago. I always used the device as daily driver and it served me well. I love the idea of a real open source operating system i can pay for to get the privacy i want. My Calendar and contacts are synced with an baikal dav server on a raspberry pi in my living room. I used threema as messenger and the internal mail client was ok, but...
- Current SFOS (v3) is way to unstable and i had several crashes when using private mode of the web browser or putting the sms services app into a subfolder of the app menu (DON'T u do that EVER!!!!) or using media player or unplayer and many more. Reflashing did not help.
- Bluetoth support is poor - i have to connect all devices manually. if connected automatically, there is no sound and i have to do it again by hand
- The swipe-ui was destroyed bit by bit. in SFOS1 the app tiles allowed swipe gestures, now i have this anroid like behaviour and pull down menu.
- Android support using a way to old version and Xperia xa2 seem not to work stable enough at the moment. i blame nobody for the old version. it was explained, that this will probably not be possible to update.
- i was hoping for more developer news to be able to follow the current work at jolla oi, but that never happened Webbrowser and mail app have never been really updated since sfos1 and i started to use k9 and firefox
- average picture quality and xa2 ain't no improvement
- keybaord - not even my job/company iphone forces me to correct that many typos. its anoying and makes typing really slow. With my large fingers this is difficult to use. I'm not talking about autocorrect, but the typing itself.
- due to crashes from 1. I missed some important calls and sometimes the phone needed hours to reboot or i had to wait until it fully discharged. It took me some crashes to find the key combination vol- and power with volume button pressed first and then power to do a reset/hardOff.
- sometimes i go on vacation or leave the country for business trips and i have to keep a backup phone for that
- i'm not sure, if the connection to russia is something i like more than google. This seems to be an unholy alliance. A country with a former secret service agent for president who never was able to leave his old job behind. A country testing ways to disconnect from the internet and fighting its own people...
.. to be continued
In the end sailfish os lost its coolness factor and became a speed bump for daily tasks. I'm really looking forward to the day where jolla releases a version that brings me back and makes sailfish os great again. I really want to buy that xa2-phone and come back. Until then an android phone running lineageOS without gapps has to do the job.
Hope to see u soon
Cheers
Daniel
PS: Xperia X in good condition with SFOS preinstalled 4 sale.
So... you're back in Google's claws, or Apple's cage, or what?
Fuzzillogic ( 2019-03-10 16:37:27 +0200 )editI still have the hope that we will see a nice Sailfish3 this year and you come back to the community and have fun again. Until then have a nice time.
jolladiho ( 2019-03-10 21:37:15 +0200 )editI fully understand LordRooster. I own a X and a XA2 and try to use them on a daily basis. But it's no fun - in addition to the above mentioned problems I also can't really use my XA2 as a phone due to the proximity sensor-problem. And the X hangs itself on certain WLANs so badly that it doesn't even shut down properly anymore. But what annoys me the most is the very outdated browser. I can put up with the fact that there are not many apps for sailfish, and that some android-apps don't work. But the lack of apps stresses the importance of a good browser, which Sailfish does not have (anymore). There are plenty of websites that are not usable. [And the worst part of it: My kids, my wife and all of my friends are making fun of me because my phone fails in so many situations in real life... That is... h a r d.] Well, I will still stick to Sailfish for a while, hoping that things will change for the better. I'm still tempted by the idea of a more or less open mobile system without Apple or Google, but on the same time I have the feeling that my patience will come to an end some day.
nelbrog ( 2019-03-10 22:35:47 +0200 )edit@Fuzzillogic: currently i'm using a phone with lineageOS without GAPPS, so the answer is no and yes at the same time.
LordRooster ( 2019-03-11 11:37:31 +0200 )editThe answers below should be comments!
jolladiho ( 2019-03-11 11:57:25 +0200 )edit