Blog about my journey with #Jolla and #SailfishOS: https://www.rubdos.be/2026/04/15/my-sailfish-os-journey.html

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@cartron Thanks Nico, I appreciate it

[frankps@mastodon.babb.no]

@rubdos Looking forward to the next article! Keep them coming

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@frankps Will do! I've always found that Sailfish had been a bit underappreciated, and it's time to give it some visibility!

[christiannils@mastodon.social]

@rubdos thank you for those posts!

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@christiannils My pleasure! Anything you'd like covered in the follow-ups?

[christiannils@mastodon.social]

@rubdos let me think about it! I am soon a first-time user (from the J2's batch #1)... I enjoyed reading about the history of the OS in your post.
As a first-time user, I guess I am interested to read more about your impressions on using the OS daily.
Thanks again!

[mihamarkic@mastodon.social]

@rubdos Nice article, looking for the next ones. Perhaps my biggest concern with Sailfish is that it isn't entirely OSS. I also wonder whether higher level languages work on it, like dotnet and kotlin, I really need to spin up the emulator some day.

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@christiannils That's exactly why I'm writing this; I'm very glad to reach the right audience then!

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@mihamarkic The OSS part I should've probably mentioned in the first post. There's a "finalization" post I'm kinda planning if I have enough content, it could definitely go in there.

I know @abranson has been playing with Kotlin, I haven't heard about .NET myself. I'm writing most of my stuff in Rust, and that includes Sailfish. Might be I have a post about that too.

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@mihamarkic Regarding the emulator: my experience with it (which is 5+ years ago I believe) is that it's slow and doesn't cover the whole picture really well. If you can get your hands on a (cheap) device, it might honestly be a better bet.

[fynn@digitalcourage.social]

@rubdos Was a joy to read.

[mihamarkic@mastodon.social]

@rubdos yeah, devices are always better, but emulators have advantages as well.

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@Fynn Appreciate it, really!

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@mihamarkic Not having to get a device is a certain advantage, and so is isolation. The emulator was really terrible in my experience, but my memory is also really vague. One issue is that it's a VirtualBox-based emulator (iirc), but most people nowadays take the Docker-based SDK, and they don't like to be installed on the same system for some reason. But it's been a while since I used this stuff.

[dh0pe@nerdculture.de]

@rubdos Rubens, thanks a lot, l'm curious for the next blog post, especially how the daily usage goes.

[mrmanor@social.data.coop]

@rubdos
Have you seen this @allan_christoffersen in case you're considering a Jolla. I definitely am.

[allan_christoffersen@discuss.systems]

@MrManor @rubdos
No I had not, thank you for the mention! I too has been a Nokia user for a long time, all the way to the brilliant N900. Sadly it bricked a few months after "The Burning Platform" speech, and I never joined the Sailfish adventure. Looking forward to more writeups!

[egonian@mastodon.social]

@rubdos Great to see your post and IMHO Whisperfish is one of the most important apps for Sailfish.
I will have two Jolla phones, I really want to see the project and community thrive.
This comment is not a complaint but a highlight the importance of good quality native apps that can be trusted, like Whisperfish.
The weakest part of the Jolla/Sailfish experience is still be availability of key native apps and a trust in the app security.

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@egonian What kind of app security would you like to see, going ahead? I know @abranson is working really hard on that lately!

[setok@attractive.space]

@rubdos how likely do you see yourself getting Whisperfish into the Jolla Store, I wonder?

Constantly thinking about the first user experience