[nextos]

I have a Jolla too, and while I love it as an N9 successor, I'd lie if I didn't say I'm disappointed they didn't opensource the whole system. This failed to attract a critical mass of developers and has made the platform quite stagnant. I understand their investors were afraid of opensourcing key assets, but their alternative plan hasn't worked well either.

Does it make sense to go the N900 route now? Anyone has any experience on this? Some worthy successors like Pyra and Neo900 are coming out, and N900 can be still found easily to use while waiting for these newcomers. How good is Maemo these days?

An obvious alternative is to get a Nexus and install CopperheadOS + FDroid. The ecosystem is very polished and lively, plus hardware is very good albeit with planned obsolescence due to the lack of long-term kernel updates.