> What use is running an OS that isn't well designed for a device with such a form factor?

:?

Debian doesn't care about the hardware size/shape/layout, nor a 2:1 screen resolution.

Sailfish is specifically advertised by Jolla as being supported on the Gemini PDA.

> Considering you've waited so long for a suitable device, I imagine you'll be waiting for
> just as long to find an OS that meets your requirements. Is Sailfish daily driver ready?

The roots of Sailfish go back fifteen years - three years before Android - why wouldn't it be ready?

I have yet to decide whether I'd be running Sailfish or Debian.

I would get one of these devices even without touchscreen functionality.

Anything that doesn't work close enough to the way I want, I'll replace and/or fix.

When I had my G1, I would easily jot down things when they occurred to me, and could admin servers without half the screen being obscured - I can't do those with current devices.

What I've never been able to do is quickly prototype ideas to check their feasibility, or simply run scripts and applications written in any language I wanted.

I noticed that Planet Computers (the company behind the Gemini/Cosmo) are planning a 5G slider device for next year - likely to be popular amongst people who don't like clamshell but still want a keyboard...

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transformer

 :-|

Still nice to see the successful proliferation of these devices, proving there is a market for them.