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Sailfish OS showed me what Linux phones could actually be, and we need more of it
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this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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Sounds like you're letting 'perfect' be the enemy 'good'.
An OS not being abused by Google or Apple to corral users is good enough for me.
I couldn't care less whether it's proprietary in this case.
Give me a fully open source phone, that's capable of being a daily driver without funneling data to Google or Apple and we're talking!
How nice that people can have different requirements for their phones ๐
I could agree with that argumentation if saOS was significantly better than it's peers (pmOS, Ubuntu Touch and few more), but it isn't. It is only slightly better and it has significant disadvantages (main one being lack of free (as in free beer) android app "emulation")