mariusor,
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Bought a new phone to install Sailfish OS on it.

It comes with Android 14.

It's baffling to me that most people are willing to suffer all the craptitude that runs by default on Android. I had to skip and disable at least a dozen services and apps immediately after the first run setup. It's gross and I don't like it.

soulsource,
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@mariusor If Sailfish weren't such a buggy mess though.

But so is Android...

mariusor,
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@soulsource not my experience.

soulsource,
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@mariusor Okay, the number of bugs isn't that high, but there are a couple that are super annoying...

For instance https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/3-4-0-22-xa2-phone-calls-no-audio/2446 which might be critical - just imagine the first call you make after rebooting is for an ambulance...

Or that you need to reboot the phone every week or so, as some resource (memory?) gets exhausted over time.

Or that the browser is based on a Firefox version that has been around since sharks evolved...

(I still love Sailfish though.)

mariusor,
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@soulsource I don't know why you're trying to convince me.

I've been using SailfishOS as my main driver since Jolla launched it.
I ran it on the Jolla 1, Jolla C, Xperia XA2, Xperia 10 III and I never had bugs (or big enough issues) that made me feel the same level of frustration as 30m on a fresh Android has.

soulsource,
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@mariusor Sorry, I wasn't trying to convince you, just ranting.

As said, I love Sailfish, and wouldn't seriously consider switching to Android, even though some important apps don't run on Sailfish (my bank's online banking, the Austrian e-governance apps,...).

I've already decided to rather do that stuff offline than to suffer Android.

mariusor,
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@soulsource I could find my bank's application in the Aptoide store, but due to the run environment not being "secure" it means that I need to do the full 2FA authorization for every time I want to run it, which is not entirely worth it, so I default to the browser also. :D

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