That's not the real issue though. A PC is standard. Back in the 90s, you could always put in a Linux boot disk or CD and it would always boot. You may not have

That's not the real issue though. A PC is standard. Back in the 90s, you could always put in a Linux boot disk or CD and it would always boot. You may not have any driver support and your display might be stuck in VESA mode, but it would at least boot. ARM is not an architecture. Images have to be customized for every single device. Google has the power with the OHA to force all phones to use standard drivers, devicetree or UEFI (like Microsoft did), but they don't. Now we have 100s of forked kernels and no way to boot a mainline kernel on ARM devices (although PostmarketOS is trying to work on fixing this). I wrote about this a while back: https://penguindreams.org/blog/android-fragmentation/ https://penguindreams.org/blog/android-fragmentation/