Comment by Teknomadix

19 days ago

Interesting. I've never really thought much about Samsung phones because I always felt that they were really full of bloatware and features that seemed to distract more than present usefulness.

Knox sounds like a pretty awesome feature though.

I use `nix-on-droid` on a Pixel 9 running stock Android 16. It provides me with a nix shell that gives me ZSH, Starship prompt, NeoVim, w3m, ssh, alpine, Claude-code, Circumflex (TUI HackerNews Client) and just about anything else I want from the Nix packages ecosystem. I even have NUR ( Nix User Repositories) set up. I daily drive NixOS for work and for Pleasure. It's the most advanced operating system I've ever encountered. I can't wax enough praise.

The closest thing to a truly open source, fully functional and daily used mobile that I ever had was the Nokia N900. Man how I miss that thing. Maemo was Nokia's original Linux-based mobile OS, which ran on the N900/950.

MeeGo was created when Nokia merged Maemo with Intel's Moblin project around 2010. It was supposed to be the future of Nokia smartphones, but Nokia abandoned it in 2011 when they switched to Windows Phone as their primary smartphone platform. Idiots.

Mer was created as an open-source continuation of MeeGo after Nokia dropped it.

Sailfish OS was then built on top of Mer by Jolla, a company founded by former Nokia employees who had worked on MeeGo.

Jolla launched in 2013 with the goal of continuing the Linux mobile vision that Nokia had abandoned. They make phones and tablets.