SFOS isn't paid; just the proprietary features on the official ports (Android App Support and Exchange Activesync).

Community ports and official ports without those features have always been free.

I have been daily driving linux phones as my only phone for over two years. Typing to you now from a phone I ported myself, which has been in my pocket for 3 months now.

Linux phones are where Linux desktops were 10 years ago. A few of us who are lucky can get away with using them because we don't require proprietary software on our personal devices, but many people will struggle without their Facebook app or their Garage Door Opening app or their Ford Connect app or whatever else. That said, SailfishOS has a decent compatibility layer, but it in itself is proprietary.

It's called Autumn

Bill Gates said you'd never need more than that.

Grab a spare Raspberry Pi, plug an SSD into it, follow this guide, once every few months ssh in and apt update && apt upgrade.

That's been my setup for nearly 7 years now. It's been flawless, no deliverability issues, no maintinance headaches, just email that I own.

I daily drive one. I love it to bits but it's been through three engines and gearboxes, four coils, two carburettors, and two distributors in the last 70,000kms and I still have a niggling ignition fault and can't get the mixture quite perfect.

As I've been through all these faults I've slowly been doing more and more of the work myself as I don't trust "specialist" shops to put the time and care into my job to do it right, and as a result the car is a lot better now than when I bought it. But its a lot of work.

In short, buy a 40 year old Japanese car, not a British one!

If you notice this notice, you'll notice you've noticed that this notice you've noticed is not worth noticing.

Did you notice?

Hardly, SFOS users go back to the meego/n9 days and earlier. I'm a newcomer!

Mad!

I have been running SailfishOS as my daily driver for two years now. Linux phones are great!

Come down here and say that. When you live 500km from the nearest corner store, a car is necessary.

Like it or not, not everywhere can be the perfect picture of a modern European city. Australia is too big and too sparsely populated for public transport to get to everyone, its not financially viable. Heck, many major arterial highways weren't even paved roads until the last 20 years or so.

Cities should not need automobiles, I agree. But the food will not get to the cities without them. And the people who live in the middle of the country and make the food won't survive without driving to town a couple of times a month either.

No. People would starve to death. Cars are necessary. Not everyone lives in the CBD of the capital city.

Why? Its just another brick in the wall.