It’s something that started in 2012 when I started using the N9 after the basic and smart versions of Symbian and it continues with Sailfish OS. The overall experience is a drug that you’re hooked on, that you’d never want to let go of. Including the community and the operating system developing better and better step by step. It’s hard to describe this in precise words, which always come across as too vague. It’s a strong feeling. It’s already in your DNA. It’s an attitude. It’s a love-hate relationship. 
4 Likes
Something I didn’t realise I loved: how the Documents app, thanks to tracker/localsearch, keeps track of all of your documents regardless of file type, and lets you view them easily. I recently had to download a couple of PDF files to my parents’ Android phone and view them in order, and it felt like I was jumping through hoops, using file managers to figure out where they might have been saved, then opening them in a separate PDF viewer, going back to the file manager to find the other PDF files, and so on. There was no way I could explain to my parents how to do so on their own, whereas on Sailfish I could have just told them to open the Documents app, no further explanation needed.
It gets even more complicated on Android if you have other file types, because you then need to install other viewers, but on Sailfish the only thing I would have to say would still be ‘just open the Documents app’.
6 Likes
The internet says every Android phone does it. What is the particularity with Jolla?
Additional gesture options I can see:
- Double tap to turn off the screen
- Raise to wake
- Cover the phone with hand to turn the sound off when it rings.
- Sweep with the side of the hands to take a screenshot
1 Like
I love that Sailfish OS allows me a lifestyle of smartphone usage without ever opening an Android app.
Well, maybe once a month I open AAS. Mainly to update the apps which I then do not use.
#digital-vegan
11 Likes
Love that LED, that shows me through the room if there was anything important.
6 Likes
After the short transition phase, coming back to SFOS after a few years, I must say that I’m very much enjoying the overall user experience. The UI’s not full of bloat and isn’t actively trying to keep you hooked. Sure this is partly because I haven’t installed any addictive apps, but there’s something about the OS that’s different too.
4 Likes
Zypper ref & dup is really cute to upgrade apps and system (on community ports). This is much more splintered on Android…
Love this Linux way of simplicity…
3 Likes
Thanks fot the hint. Honestly speaking, most people don’t know about this and won’t enable it because it’s like most things in Google-Android deeply hidden in the very confusing settings. Well, in 2013 Jolla had it in their first phone and at that time it was a unique feature which came from the mighty Nokia N9.
2 Likes
Every option there was active by default on my Samsung device.
1 Like
I like a lot of things but, what I like the most, probably, is the quiet way of living, that SFOS facilitate.
I like, for instance, the way of the things ‘just work’, on SFOS. The music app, for exemple, is simple, but work; just do what I want they do.
The same for email app, or Calendar…
6 Likes
I love that the fingerprint scanner is usable.
5 Likes
The Jolla logo on boot up is pretty enjoyable after so many years.
12 Likes
Dont know if allowed to say but …
I like it reminds me on my last nokia / microsoft phone (Ui wise) but it is more powerfull