Sailfish OS is recognized as one of the few alternative mobile OSes suitable as daily driver

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#1

Recently, I came across a study Sustainable use of a smartphone and regulatory needs pleading for alternative OSes and mentioning Sailfish OS next to /e/ and lineage as one of those mobile OSes that are a true alternative to the two big ones. Here is an excerpt:

" 7.4 Alternative operating systems and custom ROMs

Sustainable operation can be improved by installing an alternative OS like a mobile Linux OS or a custom ROM for an android derivate, see Figure 3 (Maksutov et al., 2018). They are free of system trackers, fully functional and stable, as well as mature for daily customer and corporate use, compared with the case study of the European-developed SailfishOS as example (Grolleau, 2021)."

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The study is worthwhile reading - even if you are not a SFOS fanboy

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#2

It is embarrassingly bad that they mention “custom roms” alongside actual different OS:es.

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#3

This is pissing me off most of the time as well.
Every custom project has a purpose and it’s really fine. No matter if it’s focusing on complimenting android or focusing on privacy etc.
But it is not an alternative OS, it’s just an android custom rom.

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#4

Not even close for a daily for the average joe even if we leave out the time wasting, spying social media apps.

#5

There are only 10 kind of people, apple and google…

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#6

Thanks for info!

Wow, omg, Sailfish uses 4Gb of RAM on screen, that’s not true. Look now at Terminal - > Top, only 2Gb using of RAM.

(hard to attach screenshot here).

#7

Maybe on 32-bit builds (eg. XA2), but on 64-bit builds it uses more.

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#8

To be fair, the article differs between AOSP-derivates and pure mobile Linux OSs.

It takes a very interesting perspective as it analyses Smartphones based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and looks very well researched

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