my next conquest i guess.

actually

https://github.com/matthewwardrop/linux-surfacepro3

boom everybody wins. well kinda have to use archlinux but thats even better.

Nice. But won't help me. I've a Surface Pro 4.

I don't think this is entirely true. For one, after such a long time of devices without physical keyboards, it's safe to say interest has waned. They take up a lot of extra space, whereas a touch keyboard only shows up when needed. There is no way to change your keyboard layout, but with touch keyboards you can switch between whichever layout you want. Considering the lack of native English speakers that currently own a Jolla device (or use a port), probably not too many people will be happy with a UK QWERTY, and producing devices with a hundred different layouts for each different language (or even different layouts for the same language) when your target group is not very big doesn't make a whole lot of sense either.

I would be happy with any (just one) layout!!!
(of course preferably German or English as the one)

I get about 2 days worth of use with it, around the same as with my phone. I think usually tablets have better battery capacity but cannot really say anything of it since I have no experience with other than SFOS tablets
(my other one is Nexus7 running SFOS)

Probably the thing with devices conserving power better is that they go faster to suspend mode.

More memory is nice but the 1GB of SBJ1 has never been any problem to me.

Do you run Android apps too? I think that's where the problems start for most.

I used to get all kind off strange text messages after putting my sim-card into Android device back at the time. Nowdays I do only get a sfdroid bug repport dialog after a system crash for a moment. An Andriod system that can't communicate with your BT, modem or WiFi HW is a good thing to have.

Interesting. I see it exactly the opposite way. Physical keyboards are neatly out of the way yet always ready. A couple of cases in hand: CTRL+<letter> combinations in the browser, a key combination to take a screenshot, pressing a letter to apply an instant filter in a file manager or a contacts list... in all these cases you have a full, unobscured view of the screen.

Virtual keyboards, on the other hand, pop up when they please so you are at a mercy of the OS designer. When they do pop up, they take up a sizeable portion of the screen, hiding most of the context. I have yet to see a virtual keyboard taking less than a half of the screen. On my Jolla it is more like 2/3.

That'll be the day when someone catches me running any android apps!

It's a sin, you know?