gankouskhan

Their keyboards that are open source firmware were so I would imagine

Depending on what you value and expect from a "more" private device than the main hardware brands and their software these are not particularly secure physically, and to some extent via software. It's somewhere between pixel flavor of Android and grapheneos. Steps in the right direction. I will be watching for future versions especially as they come to be viable in the US.

Little reading on what I'm referring without a deep (and albeit opinionated) dive by the graphene team on the hardware, and similar but done by other teams for sailfish specifically.

https://hivesecurity.gitlab.io/blog/jolla-phone-privacy-threat-model-2026/

Edit: That is opinionated as in the architectural decisions and trade offs made to reach a certain level of protection not as in bias or "opinions". Aka software usage of opinionated in the way that a framework might be.

They might care when Windows is their cash cow again. Even enterprise windows is a drop in the bucket now.

Ubuntu touch has half a foot in the grave, but keeps getting revived. Fortunately Ubuntu proper works well depending on the flavor you chose regarding your desktop manager. Same for most flavors of Linux. Mint isn't qw critical as it used to be. We are at a phase where I would say most Linux OS are beginner friendly.