I was at a bar in Tampere (a city here in Finland) last week and met a guy with a phone running Sailfish OS. I’ve been interested in them for quite a few years so I asked him to let me see it and he did. Even though it was a 6+ year old phone it was running smooth as butter, the initial UX was awesome.

I really hope this becomes a reality and that the phone isn’t just another cheap chinese touchscreen device. I am making the switch when the time comes.

They claim that to be, but in my experience I have had maybe two students ask me for help with boot options, out of around 2-4 thousand? This was at a college with no computer science program, and most people being not very savvy with technology.

The ones asking for hekp usually had some old Macbook with weird boot menus

UEFI support would be such a trivial feature to add

Having worked as an admin for both systems, this absolutely sucks… The cost of running these servers is going to at least quadruple due to the new system requirements, and tens of thousands of USB sticks are going to become e-waste.

We used to run these servers on old laptops, but now with the new system requirements (which I won’t disclose here, as I am not sure if they have been publically stated yet) the cost of running these servers is going to quadruple for most institutions, moreso for ones buying it as SaaS from OpinSys.

Not a fan AT ALL, but hey, at least I have 200 stickers advertising the new version 🙄