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  • Definitely not mostly Android. It’s their own Linux distro/flavour with an “Android compatibility layer” like Waydroid and (gradually open sourced) system components. Ubuntu Touch has a similar approach and I believe postmarketOS as well. I really hope that Jolla’s next community device brings them some more traction and subsequent development velocity. I tried installing SailfishOS on my Fairphone 5 but it is not (yet) a polished setup experience from first boot. If they can polish that, I think it’s a great OS to facilitate a gradual move from privacy-hell. It would allow absolute must-have apps to live in locked down Android compatibility mode while there’s no viable alternative and more and more of your data living in a tracking-free OS.




  • Can highly recommend Bazzite. You can install most applications and terminal programs no problem through flatpak/brew and config any well behaved package through settings files in your home directory anyways. If you really need specific system level packages, then it’s quite straightforward tinkering to setup a GitHub repo that builds a daily image for you based on Bazzite. If you break something, you just roll back to a previous build.

    And for testing out new “live” packages: you can! Just make sure you don’t forget to persist them into your custom image if it turns out to be a useful addition.

    I think I added just a handful packages on top of Bluefin (the non-gaming version) and it runs rather merrily.

    Immutable sounds locked down, but to me it’s more like highly reproducible tinkering. Just keep your home dir clean ✨