This European Linux Phone Is a Beast (Jolla Phone)

I see mental outlaw I upvote

Pre-ordered. Europe needs phones not using US operating systems.

So does the US. Pretty happy with my Pixel 6 pro running grapheneOS but I hope Jolla phones become available here.
- Yeah GrapheneOS in itself is fine, I just don't trust the future of AOSP.
  /ex-Sony Mobile AOSP manager (dev. program)
So does Canada! Please let us buy them too!

I have the 2013 Jolla. While it's desperately outdated, it's the last smartphone I actually enjoyed using.

Absolute favorite being N900, but that's another life altogether.

N9 club here. AFAIK some of the guys working for Jolla are original N9 devs. Obligatory Fuck Elop, if not for him we would be living in an alternate universe.
- N9 gang! There were dozens of us! That was the last phone I truly enjoyed using.

Ah, it looked interesting but then I have learned that their operating system, Sailfish OS, is non-free 😥 I would rather use LineageOS or GrapheneOS - to protect my freedom.

Only the Sailfish UI is proprietary. Ubuntu touch might also be worth considering for you.
For android -instead of Lineage, have a look at e/OS (especially paired with fairphone)

I had the first Jolla phone (2015?) and it was okay, but the ecosystem is (was) very shaky. A few apps worked very well, thanks for volunteers and OSS projects but the overall experience was not amazing. Plus some services actively fight against, I remember issues for instance between WhatsApp and the mitakuulu app.

Not to me too many bank apps refuse to work outside what they see as secure android environments.
- That was one of the things that forced me from de-googled LineageOS to GrapheneOS. A compromise without being compromised. I'd like to run a proper Linux phone, but the bad apps forced into my life isn't going anyway, and less and less with run on a freed Android phone. The problem is political not technical, too many of us nerds are fighting the wrong front. (Partly, because the political from is too much human interaction to face.)
- Yeah, Bank apps and anything that has to do with money, even the parking app in my city, or the public transport app...
Ah Mitakuulu, here is one for our fallen 🥃

I wish they would include details of what CPU it will have.

It's a Mediatek SoC.
- I know but that's not really specific enough. I'd like to know what I'm getting before (pre-)ordering.