There's a ton of various lightweight DE's for GNU/Linux for example. I can run Arch Linux/i3wm just fine on my PinePhone. Actually being a highly portable Arch

There's a ton of various lightweight DE's for GNU/Linux for example. I can run Arch Linux/i3wm just fine on my PinePhone. Actually being a highly portable Arch Linux/i3wm device is what PinePhone does best at the moment for me. lol And people certainly thought about it. Phone manufacturers just actively work against people running alternative OSes on their phones, by locking up their devices, and making it annoying to unlock them, and by not respecting GPL, and releasing code with huge delays and in a very halfassed manner, and by ignoring calls to upstream their code.