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gerbick	2016-03-09 , 15:54
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Originally Posted by pichlo

"Awkward" is not the word I would have chosen. "Unnecessary", perhaps?

Changing my tone up a bit, especially when addressing the N900. I did state useless earlier in the sentence.

That's how I see SFOS: a crutch to compensate for the lack of proper input methods, such as a HW keyboard and a precision pointing device, like a mouse or a stylus.

Agree here. But I think that it's a continuation of Harmattan in that degree; remove the hardware keyboard and whatnot and you better have good input otherwise. Since both are sitting on top of basically full-stack Linux, switching to a presentational layer that accepts keyboard/mouse/stylus input should be a no-brainer if some enterprising individual, group or project decided to do so.

I must say it does a damn good job compensating but if you have those, you do not need SFOS. You may as well use a real OS.

Agree fully.

I, OTOH, have found both Jolla and SFOS severely lacking in pretty much every aspect except a more powerful CPU. Moving from N900 to Jolla feels like moving from an old Mercedes to a new Ford Fiesta.

Since we're in different parts of the world, I'll try avoid esoteric brand names and use generic terms instead.

I've always likened the N900 to an old car. It is that old diesel Mercedes indeed. Reliable, you know it should work/will work but you have to be patient on some things, you hear a noise or a have a problem it's a quick diagnosis and perhaps fix. And the things it's missing - well, you "don't need them anyway"... until you do.

Sailfish is that sporty, quick to accelerate kit car like the Ariel Atom. Very quick, nice transportation, fun to drive, does somethings in a rather odd fashion, has no storage (trunk or boot), has half a windshield but proposes to get you to point A to point B rather quickly albeit quite quirkily.

It may be new, but it does not have air-conditioning, power steering, ABS, a dashboard clock, electric windows, a CD player...

I think we actually agree. See above.

But yeah, this is OT in this thread. Sorry.

I think it's par for the course in this thread.