What actually is Aurora OS and who is using it?

modern, sure but it also had many bad design elements. And most of the best core design elements where from MeeGo

(just because its modern/new/fancy doesn’t mean better.)

SailfishOS 1 was like KDE4 it had many nice fancy modern elements but it overall it sucked to used…and it took A LONG time for the devs to refine and polish how everything should work and look better for the mainstream users without loosing the core (design) principles

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Except for icons that sucks big times :stuck_out_tongue: they are seriously horrendous

stay away from branded icons :grin:

That is true.
They look as basic as it gets :sweat_smile:

For me, it looks like Android garbage too. Topbar always visible, no PullDown/PushUp menu, white background, UI and layout of application elements…

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Thank you @remote, that was interesting to read (also this GitHub repo linked from the article).

I guess someone forgot a Aurora OS Tablet on the bus with all the intressting things.
https://nitter.poast.org/hackerfantastic/status/1800570095619784865#m

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/qmlscene ru.auroros.appname.qml command works on Aurora OS only if you have file in

/usr/share/applications/ru.auroraos.appname and main qml file have full mane

/usr/share/ru.auroraos.ApplicationTemplate/qml/ru.auroraos.ApplicationTemplate.qml (by default it named ApplicationTemplate.qml)

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You can also run clear silica-qml app by replacing sailfish-qml to aurora-qml.

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Some apps from Openrepos was successfully installed on Aurora OS 4 device by adding certificate.

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as people say - it is made by kernel (ima)

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for october '24 it’s still gecko 78

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A brand new chromium based browser in Beta-test now for Aurora OS.

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Is it all open source? Meaning portable to Sailfish OS?

Currently not( I saw only rpm version from Aurora Center.

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Aquarius NS M11 is it for sale in Russia or which one is the best phone with Aurora OS?Are they sim and bootloader locked ?I`m very interested to order one from Russia!

Ulephone Armor X8 with Aurora OS on it.That’s very interesting :slight_smile: . Any Aurora OS images for it ?I can order it immediately for less than 100 Euro!
EDIT:Already found the images!

Already have them Aurora 4.0.2.303/Aurora 5.1.0.100.That was the first place to look at and understand everything ,no need for dictionaries :slight_smile:

Where did you find the device for buying? Thanks!