Is There a User Guide?

[david.giffin]

Ok, dumb question maybe, but is there a user guide for Sailfish OS? Something I can read before deciding to dive in?

[paulvt]

There is the old Jolla user guide: https://jolla.com/guide/en/index.html
That is Sailfish OS 1.x (we’re at 3.x now) so some things are a bit different these days. It has the basic ideas though.
I couldn’t find anything else for now.

[peterleinchen]

You may take a look at this thread…
https://together.jolla.com/question/226905/dumb-howwhere-in-sailfish-to-send-mms-user-guides/

[david.giffin]

Thanks very much, I’ll go and check those out.

[flypig]

I know it’s not exactly what you asked for, but you could also get an idea by watching some feature videos. Here are a couple (both a bit old now, but they still give an idea). You’ll find a bunch more videos on both the official Jolla and Leszek’s YouTube accounts.

Jolla’s Tips & Tricks: https://youtu.be/KzbdGfwgcbQ?t=260
Leszek’s Tips for Beginners: https://youtu.be/vN7HIfEnZdc

[david.giffin]

Thank you! Folks here are really helpful, appreciate it.

[peterleinchen]

Linking to a collection of useful links, including the ‘user guide’ ones.

Beginner Resource Collection

Let’s use this topic to collect some resources a beginner might find useful. Keep this user-centric, there’s other categories for development and other discussions. Official Jolla Resources Jolla Store get your SailfishOS licenses here! SailfishOS Blog for news and things User Guides the base (see also below links) Jolla User Guide SF1.0 (outdated) Jolla Tablet User Guide SF2.0 (outdated) Jolla Together legacy discussion and support forum (read-only, may go away) Jolla Ser…

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and if we still had the power I’d close this answered

[paulvt]

@david.giffin you can do this, I think. I have seen this in other Discourse forums.

[david.giffin]

No idea how to do that, sorry!

[paulvt]

It is explained here: https://www.discourse.org/plugins/solved.html
But maybe the plugin is not enabled? If so, it should definitely be given that most will come from together.jolla.com/AskBot.

I asked here: Is the Solved plugin enabled (for marking replies as solutions and topics as solved)?

[david.giffin]

I don’t see the “Solved” button, so an guessing it’s not enabled.

[paulvt]

It is enabled now!
https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/is-the-solved-plugin-enabled-for-marking-replies-as-solutions-and-topics-as-solved/951/17

[tigas]

The TJC app/sensors wiki seems to be very old and disorganized. Also, the result for many apps and sensors would depend on being a vanilla Aliendalvik or microG. Also, the microG setup method seems to have changed as of 3.4.x
You see where I’m getting at with these “alsos”? There are a lot of variables and not enough community (in users, resources and organization) for a fresh new user, like me, to have a smooth onboarding.

After 5 years trying to eke everything out of my N9, I had to use Android for a few years, but since my Android phone is reaching the end, I got a Sony XA2 and bought Sailfish.
The instructions for installing Sailfish on the XA2 were excellent. All the rest has been a struggle.